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On Friday, a group of scientists released a report that said global warming is for real and people are likely the cause.
The IPCC, the most authoritative group on warming grouping 2,500 scientists from more than 130 nations, predicted more severe rains, melting glaciers, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels, especially if Antarctica or Greenland thaw.Conservatives then began showing their disaproval with idiotic statements. Rush Limbaugh tried to debunk global warming by saying stranded polar bears, who live on melting ice caps, are just playing around, just like your cat does.
A caller to the Sam Seder show said that global warming is just a way from liberals to reach into his wallet and take his money.
And the ridiculous statements continued over at State 29. State 29 has recently had a couple posts attacking Al Gore and basically saying global warming can't exist because it is cold outside. This statement shows how ignorant State 29 is. If State 29 actually spent 5 minutes researching global warming, he would know that global warming increases extreme weather patterns such as hurricanes, tornados, droughts, heat waves, and cold spells.
To counter the report, Exxon-Mobil has offered $10,000 to any reports that discuss the shortcomings of global warming.
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change reportMaybe State 29 should submit his posts.
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Ten thousand dollars is pocket change to a scientist. The only ones who would be tempted by this are the ones with no credibility already.
Which is exactly why State 29 might be tempted.
Uh... yeah, global warming is real. It was real 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warming Period when Greenland was like… green. Not so much during the Little Ice Age that we’re currently emerging from. On a longer time scale, the Earth has been getting warmer for 18,000 or so years. And believe me, if you live in Chicago, that’s a good thing because it sucks to live under a mile of ice.
Climate change is the natural state of things on this planet. The earth is not a closed system and our Sun is not a constant power source. How does this that fit into your 5 minutes of “research”?
Religiously inspired pseudo-science – neither the Fundy-Christian 7 day creationism variety nor the fear mongering Gaia worship/crypto socialist variety is really science.
state29 = FUD
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