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04-06-06, 08:36 AM | #1 |
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Leading Global Warming Skeptic changes mind after watching Al Gore Speak
How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
By Michael Shermer In 2001 Cambridge University Press published Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist, which I thought was a perfect debate topic for the Skeptics Society public lecture series at the California Institute of Technology. The problem was that all the top environmental organizations refused to participate. "There is no debate," one spokesperson told me. "We don't want to dignify that book," another said. One leading environmentalist warned me that my reputation would be irreparably harmed if I went through with it. So of course I did. My experience is symptomatic of deep problems that have long plagued the environmental movement. Activists who vandalize Hummer dealerships and destroy logging equipment are criminal ecoterrorists. Environmental groups who cry doom and gloom to keep donations flowing only hurt their credibility. As an undergraduate in the 1970s, I learned (and believed) that by the 1990s overpopulation would lead to worldwide starvation and the exhaustion of key minerals, metals and oil, predictions that failed utterly. Politics polluted the science and made me an environmental skeptic. More.. |
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05-06-06, 05:56 PM | #3 |
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How true.
The proof really is in the puddin' on this.. It's all about jobs for the over achieving academics without a sellable skill. |
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Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/...ming020507.htm
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06-02-07, 05:52 PM | #5 |
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The theory of Global Warming has become a vested interest. Lots of people owe their jobs to the theory and will do what it takes to continue feeding at the trough of fear. Not unusual of course.
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06-02-07, 10:59 PM | #6 |
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If and when a global cooling trend begins in the latter part of this century and the environmentalists all start taking credit for it, there'll be no living with them. There's nothing more annoying than a fool who thinks he's a hero.
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19-08-07, 10:34 AM | #7 | |
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A week after Newsweek printed a cover story about climate change deniers and their alleged financial links to big oil, they printed an other story explaining how they were way out of line in doing so. I admire the editors for having the sand to print a dissenting point of view in their own magazine (albeit without the original title, "Newsweek's Global Warming Crusade"), but Newsweek is a microcosm of the way global warming is portrayed throughout the mainstream media: oftentimes honest reporting is less important than cashing in on public fears.
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19-08-07, 05:14 PM | #8 |
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I am surprised no mention about how NASA had been publishing incorrect climate data for years.. y2k bug lol
or something like that turns out the 1990's were not the warmest years of last century ,it was sometime in the 1930's |
19-08-07, 06:16 PM | #9 |
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Climate changes, wether it is manmade or not doesn't matter...
What matters is that we do something about it NOW instead of debating if it is natural phenomenon or not for Mother Earth will recover over several thousands of years while HUMANITY might not. I am not afraid for our planet, she can take care of herself and she takes care of us no less (right now but for how long?) While we might not survive what comes next. So what ever poo is being flung from both camps, Mother Earth Doesn't care at all, She supports and will not care if our own undoing ultimately dooms us. As long as there is a buck to me made off her bountyful ressources, Fuck her and fuck off those who will live on this planet after we have passed away, right? The ME, MYSELF and I culture is truly growing rapidly these days eh? |
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It seems that might be true in Greenland, according to recent studies. However, while certain local temperatures might be lower, the global average temperature is up since the '30s. |
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20-08-07, 07:13 PM | #11 | |
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Mazer?, are you only a child of GOD still playing in the garden of eden? We are but a sneeze according to mother earth time. Some say we have been here 500 000 years, some other say 1 000 000 years... We still do not weigh in her balance for we are young ones, prone to tantrums, see current ADMIN. Even if I do not procreate in the near future, I do hope some future generations will be able to thrive without gaz masks. So far, the only living population that has survived it all are ants, roaches and moskitoes (see amber rocks) Mazer, never in history of man that the planet has been that much polluted, so once again, either camp who is fligning poop at eachother will not solve this problem. Only global concience will IMHO. Will you be part of it Hon? |
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