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[yawarakaijin]

For the love of me, I will never understand this global warming crap. IT IS CRAP! For chrissakes people! All of Canada was once covered by a kilometer thick sheet of ice! Now, it is not. Correct me if I am wrong but I dont believe that was our fault.

Now. Forget about all this global warming crap and lets just do the right thing. Just stop polluting our environment if we have the means to do things more cleanly.

For f#ck sakes people! There are wars and famines raging around the world. Doesnt something like 2/3 the world's population live in poverty!? There are better things than this to spend our time on.

[Harpeau]

[khyber]

[yawarakaijin]

Surely, global warming is an issue. All the politics around it, however, well that is another story. So let's say that global warming is happening. Fine its a natural event. Let's stop building cities where they shouldn't exist. Let's stop destroying natural habitat which could act as a barrier against some of the effects of global warming. Let's admit we can't just run amok doing whatever we wish, wherever we wish.

Or we can blame big companies for causing it ALL and take no responsibility whatsover for deciding to build our cities in deserts, on flood plains or on coastal regions laying barely above sea level.

[keane]

[yawarakaijin]

[keane]

[Harpeau]

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Harpeau

[cerulean808]

Here are some of Harpeau's weasel friends:


Robert Balling, Jr., Ph.D., Director, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University. Received funding from and/or was underwritten by the Kuwaiti government and foreign coal mining corporations and also from the Cyprus Minerals Company. (Ozone Action, http://www.Ozone.org; accessed 3/1/00); Gelbspan, R., The Heat is On (Perseus Books, 1998 updated ed.), pp. 44-6) Received over $300,000 in research funding and honoraria from oil companies and the Kuwaiti government. (Lingua Franca, June/July, 1997; p. 53) Scientific advisor for the Greening Earth Society, which is funded by the Western Fuels Association. (http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm; accessed 4/30/01) It has been reported that since the mid-1980's more than 25 percent of his money has come from companies with vested interests in carbon dioxide-producing fossil fuels. And nearly all that money has funded research critical of greenhouse theory. Also he has received funding from Exxon Corporation, the German Coal Mining Association, and the British Coal Corporation. (Slivka, Judd "Science for Hire in Debate Over Warming," Arizona Republic, 3/25/01) In another report, Dr. Balling states that he has "received $408,000 in research support from fossil-fuel industries in the past 10 years." (Chron. Higher Ed., 5/22/98, A41)


David Legates, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark. Chief research scientist, Southern Regional Climate Center in Baton Rouge. (http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=66; accessed 5/2/05) Author of a report that disputes the role of human activity in global warming trends sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization receiving funding from ExxonMobil, the DaimlerChrysler Corporation, and the El Paso Energy Foundation, among others. (Foundation Center - Foundation Directory Online; accessed 2/24/03; U.S. Newswire, �Climatologist exposes cracks in global warming foundation� 7/12/04) Co-authored �Reconstructing climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years: a reappraisal� in the journal Energy and Environment, claiming that global fluctuations in temperature are not anomalous, a project that was supported in part by the American Petroleum Institute. Adjunct scholar, National Center for Policy Analysis, a think-tank sponsored by ExxonMobil, the Daimler Chrysler Corporation and the El Paso Energy Foundation, among others. (U.S. Newswire, �NCPA Earth Day briefing on global warming: what do we really know vs. what we are told,� 4/22/04) Research scientist, Computational Geosciences, Inc. (U.S. Newswire, �Author critical of climate change report available for interviews Friday morning,� 11/1/00) Editor of Western Fuels� annual �State of the Climate� report. (Henderson, Paula. �Global warming controversy,� The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 6/2/99, p. 8 )


Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. Virginia State Climatologist. Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Received funding from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association.(�Leading Skeptic of Global Warming Hired for $100,000,� Rocky Mountain News, 8/3/06, p.25A) Carbon-emitting industries like oil and coal "fund friendly scientists like Pat Michaels." ("Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?" ABC Evening News, March 26, 2006) �Scientific advisor for the Greening Earth Society, which is funded by the Western Fuels Association. (http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm April 30, 2001) Funding from and/or was underwritten by the Western Fuels Association (a consortium of coal interests), German and American coal interests, Cyprus Minerals Company. (Ozone Action, http://www.Ozone.org, 3-1-2000; and Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On, Perseus Books, 1998 updated, pp. 40-3, 202-11) "Michaels has received more than $115,000 over the last four years from coal and energy interests. World Climate Review, a quarterly he founded that routinely debunks climate concerns, was funded by Western Fuels." (Ross Gelbspan, �The Heat Is On: the warning on the world�s climate sparks a blaze of denial,� Harper�s Magazine, December 1995)


Willie H. Soon, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, CA. Research paper in the journal Energy and Environment, �Reconstructing climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years: a reappraisal,� claiming that the global fluctuations in temperature are not anomalous, was supported in part by the American Petroleum Institute. Paid senior scientist for the George C. Marshall Institute, an organization that has received $90,000 in donations from ExxonMobil in 2002, $80,000 of which was earmarked for the Global Climate Change Program. Science director, Center for Science and Public Policy (a.k.a., Center for Sound Science and Public Policy) of the Frontiers of Freedom Foundation, an organization that has received $232,000 from ExxonMobil in 2002. Lead author of a report criticizing the EPA on mercury regulations; report was sponsored by the Frontiers of Freedom Foundation. (Mooney, Chris. �Earth Last,� The American Prospect, 5/04, p.28;http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=George_C._Marshall_Institute; accessed 01/28/04) Scientific advisor for the Greening Earth Society, which is funded by the Western Fuels Association. ( http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm ; accessed 4/30/01)

[yawarakaijin]

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[Harpeau]

Those weasels are not my friends. Many scientists that demonstrate how apocryphal global warming to be are not paid off by the oil companies.

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[keane]