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Doubts about climate change?

Here’s what got that seed of doubt sown. 30 years ago A bold plan was hatched Americas oil industry execs and a top PR guru. An $850,000 a day contract was at stake meaning it was in the oil industry’s best interests to create seeds of doubt about climate change.
A bit like the NRA telling supporters that guns don’t kill people.

Obviously the plan worked because climate changed doubters are everywhere today. Sadly actual climate change is wacking us in the face every hour of every day.
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Philth · 46-50, M
How did I just *know* that TheHippy would be a climate change denier?
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Philth Because it is proven, significant, and unarguable.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Philth [quote]How did I just *know* that TheHippy would be a climate change denier?[/quote]

I don't know! You crazy kids and your fancy apps!
redredred · M
@windinhishair” I prefer questions I can’t answer to answers I can’t question.”

Richard Feinman
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@redredred Richard [b]Feynman[/b] also believed in the scientific process that has shown climate change to be a reality. Scientists will continually be working to better understand the complex processes that impact the climate and how to use science to better predict impacts and develop and implement solutions. Those are the questions that are important as we move forward.
redredred · M
@windinhishair there is no question climate is changing. It unavoidable since, geologically, we are still exiting the last ice age. What I think is absurd is the notion that the tiny amount of CO2 humans have added has had any serious effect on the climate. The CO2 does however have great effect on taxation and government over-reach.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@redredred I can understand how you can be ignorant of the impact CO2 has on the climate, since you aren't a climate scientist, or even a person with a basic understanding of scientific principles, but climate scientists and others who study the issue have a full understanding and appreciation for the impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gases such as methane. You can choose to willfully ignore their expertise, and you obviously have. Unfortunately your willful ignorance doesn't lessen the impact of greenhouse gas emissions in any way.
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@redredred that's the problem. People on the Left hardly ever question anything that their glorious leaders tell them.
Philth · 46-50, M
@dakotaviper take a look at yourself, dude
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@Philth I have and I'm proud to say that I question everything and that I can think for myself.
It sucks that you cannot fathom how to do it though.
GeniUs · 56-60, M
@dakotaviper What you cannot appear to do is separate a problem such as climate change from politics, it will ultimately destroy civilization and will not question whether you were left or right.
Philth · 46-50, M
@dakotaviper another American idiot, scrambling over yourselves to get shafted by your millionnaire masters. When your country has disappeared in a ball of flame or maybe you've just shot each other to pieces, maybe it may then become clear but no, I expect you'll still be arguing over who's got the biggest pickup or the most wanked-over flag. Murica, yeah!
Budwick · 70-79, M
@GeniUs [quote]it will ultimately destroy civilization and will not question whether you were left or right.[/quote]
redredred · M
@windinhishair it’s okay, you probably think socialism works too. Keep lapping up the crap your leaders feed you. There was a time most scientists believed in the caloric theory, the phlogiston theory and phrenology.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@redredred Got it. So because some people were wrong about phrenology 150 years ago, tens of thousands of experts are wrong about global climate change despite the massive evidence to the contrary. Keep reading your hilarious right-wing websites that are indistinguishable from satire. Her Emails! Benghazi!
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@redredred What was the name of your favorite right-wing website? "De-Volve"? The one where you can read about the white North Carolina police force resigning en masse because their new boss was--GASP!--black? And Hillary's State Department admits being part of a child porn ring?
redredred · M
@windinhishair You really are beyond any hope of education aren’t you? I am a libertarian. I am neither right wing nor left wing. I support freedom for all and government support for very few. There are no favored groups, no populations with special rights or privileges, no one owes anyone anything under some spurious collective guilt crap.

Idiots obsessed with race, like you, bore me. You call racism with everyone you can’t successfully debate with. It’s all you’ve got and it really doesn’t work anymore.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@redredred That's your favored website, bub, not mine. You've cited it as proof for some of your wacko theories and news. People like you allow racism to continue because you like it, and you can clothe it in something else and call it good. But everyone sees through your idiocy.

I pity you because you "support freedom for all" but wish for the deaths of many who don't share your views, and convince yourself of your false virtue for being an honest man. You may smugly call yourself a libertarian, but what you really are is despicable.
@redredred

[quote]I am a libertarian. I am neither right wing nor left wing.[/quote]

You like to trot this out, but you usually sound like most Republicans here.
redredred · M
@SomeMichGuy What you hear and what I say are rarely the same things due to your inherent bias. Anything that differs from the lefttard herd is seen as right wing since leftards are unable to think beyond right or left.
@redredred Anyone who says "lefttard" is not interested in serious discussion.

I have seen many of your posts, and I stand by how most of them come across.
redredred · M
@SomeMichGuy I thought it was more polite than “fucking idiot” which accurately describes any leftist.