They reveal -- shock horror -- that large oil corporations have promoted anti-climate change propaganda.
And George gives a great reason as to why skeptics have accepted this propaganda...
When I use the term denial industry, I’m referring to those who are paid to say that manmade global warming isn’t happening. The great majority of people who believe this have not been paid: they have been duped. Reading Climate Cover-Up, you keep stumbling across familiar phrases and concepts, which you can see every day on the comment threads. The book shows that these memes were planted by PR companies and hired experts.
Yep, it's because all skeptics are morons. It's the catch-all, lefty, argument winner -- write off 50% of the population as morons.
Because of course none of us could grasp that oil corporations may interpret climate change differently...
I have a few points to make to George Mombiot and his ilk.
1. Yes I am a skeptic. But I fully accept that climate change is a fact. If it weren't the climate would be in a unique and very odd situation.
2. There is no consensus. No-one agrees on what will happen; what the impact will be; or what we should do. Even among those who fully accept AGW. This therefore makes policy development very risky.
3. It should be of concern to everyone that many of the proposed solutions involve a great increase in the size and scope of the state.
4. Wind turbines are a stupid idea. Let's drop them as a proposed solution.
5. Most skeptics have their doubts because they do not accept ideas just because they have been expressed by someone 'important'. Even if that person works for a corporation.
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7 comments:
Bare in mind that Exxon Mobile, BP and Shell are all main sponsors of Copenhagen, the oil and energy companies donate millions to "green" organisations and initiatives.
In a supply and demand market big oil/energy has a vested interest in pushing peek oil and high prices via "green taxes" as ALL price can be laid at the door of environmental need.
Well duh.
Of course Big Oil funds anti-agw propaganda, and Big Government funds pro-agw propaganda.
No scientist is without their personal bais and institutional incentives. That's why we have the peer-review process, to attempt to give some concept of "merit" to scientific work.
Looking at the reference (1) from the article, it suggests that CO2 alone is *not* responsible, but rather the shift in PDO (CO2 would be a gradual change). That the solar cycles correlate still (apart from the step in the PDO change), with the final graph showing this explicitly.
The article referenced also points out the reduction of land measurements (surely, there should be *more* if we are concerned?!) and UHI effect could play a part, although they wouldn't "step" up suddenly either.
The closing comments are:
"In conclusion, the upcoming decade will provide key data for research into both solar impacts on global
climate and human‐induced global warming. Since CO2 levels have been rising during a time of
increasing solar activity, untangling the impacts of each on the global climate system is difficult. But,
with rising CO2 levels and decreasing solar activity during the upcoming decade, the impacts of both
should become more evident."
I couldn't agree more! Lets keep researching, making the science more open and watch the results. This next decade will be a very interesting one to watch and will likely sway the argument one way or another. There is *no* reason to rush into legislation or the scare-mongering about the "tipping point" or other such alarmist talk either!
Moonbat: "When I use the term denial industry, I’m referring to those who are paid to say that manmade global warming isn’t happening."
Funnily enough when I use the term 'Big Eco' I'm referring largely to those who are paid to say it is.
Cept that Of course there is plenty of evidence to show the climate change industry has drank the koolaid doled out by "Big Oil".
Also I disagree with point 4; it's more a case of what you use the power for; I've heard there is an American project afoot to convert windpower to an electrical current in order to electrolyse water into Hydrogen and Oxygen; all you need is a couple of fuel cells and a compression storage device and you've got a storable power source capable of dealing with overloading of the power grid- a problem with wind power.
Well my point was simply that wind turbines are crap. In holland they're working on a kite based system that takes advantage of high altitude wind speeds. It looks much more promising. And will be much cheaper than turbines.
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=a...player_embedded
needs the widest exposure ... proof positive that the AGW evangelists are running scared.
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