Climate Change...Earth Orbit?

[KingOrfeo]

Yes, they have a vested interest in supporting and defending Obama's wild ass environmental schemes aimed at crippling American industry and destroying free enterprise.

Why would climatologists have any vested interest in anything like that? It wouldn't help fund their research projects.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Fortunately for America, and much to your chagrin, people are still free to speak truth to power.

And the Kochs are a power.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

And the Kochs are a power.

I saw an article this morning that stated their war chest for 2016 was over $889 million using funds both personal and from related political groups. In comparison, the amount paid out during the 2012 elections was (a measely?) $400 million.

Democracy? No..

This is the opposite of democracy. The richest people in the world essentially own an entire political party and the movement which animates it, at a cost of 0.08% of their fortune. That includes all of the spending on misleading advertising which drive wedges between common people and their own interests. All working to the self-interest of the Kochs, who see themselves as the rightful owners, and rulers of America, if not the world.

Oligarchy in action!

 

[KingOrfeo]

Private sector power, yet they shrink to insignificance before the power of monolithic centralized government . . .

A government that the uberrich like the Kochs can almost always get to do what they want even if the middle and lower classes don't want it at all. Marx was wrong about a lot of things, but he was right (WRT this stage of American history, at least) about government being an instrument of the capitalist ruling class.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Here's one who isn't in the "consensus"


Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic

PATRICK MOORE
Dr. Patrick Moore is the co-founder, chair, and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies

Editor’s Note: Patrick Moore, Ph.D., has been a leader in international environmentalism for more than 40 years. He cofounded Greenpeace and currently serves as chair of Allow Golden Rice. Moore received the 2014 Speaks Truth to Power Award at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, July 8, in Las Vegas.

I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.”

My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.

In fact, the Earth has been warming very gradually for 300 years, since the Little Ice Age ended, long before heavy use of fossil fuels. Prior to the Little Ice Age, during the Medieval Warm Period, Vikings colonized Greenland and Newfoundland, when it was warmer there than today. And during Roman times, it was warmer, long before fossil fuels revolutionized civilization.

The idea it would be catastrophic if carbon dioxide were to increase and average global temperature were to rise a few degrees is preposterous.

Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced for the umpteenth time we are doomed unless we reduce carbon-dioxide emissions to zero. Effectively this means either reducing the population to zero, or going back 10,000 years before humans began clearing forests for agriculture. This proposed cure is far worse than adapting to a warmer world, if it actually comes about.

The rest here:

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/20/why-i-am-climate-change-skeptic

This video presents the disingenuous Dr. Moore perfectly.

Today’s lesson is brought to you by Dr. Patrick Moore, who has worked for pesticide manufacturers like Monsanto, refusing to drink Monsanto’s product just seconds after claiming that "You could drink a quart of it and nothing would happen."

Once upon a time, Dr. Patrick Moore was an early Greenpeace member. Now he is a public relations consultant for the polluting companies that Greenpeace works to change: Big Oil, pesticides and GMO agribusiness, forestry, nuclear power… anyone who puts up the money for truth-benders who appear to carry scientific and environmental authority.

Interview with video

 

[KingOrfeo]

Neil deGrasse Tyson slams GOP climate deniers.

Popular astrophysicist and anointed spokesperson for science Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed by the recent antics of Republican leaders, from Sen. Ted Cruz’s directive that NASA stop focusing on Earth to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s reported ban on the term “climate change.”

“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds,” he said during a live appearance in Sarasota, Florida, referring to the aforementioned censorship. “I’m astonished by that. Astonished and disappointed. I thought as a nation we were above this.”