Your response is to run with your tail between your legs.
You have repeatedly stated your belief that "following the money" supports your childish view of climate change. In fact, being "in the middle" is the position of people who 1) don't have the balls to take an actual position and 2) justify their lack of courage with nebulous claims like "I followed the money".
In fact, you haven't "followed the money" any more than you've questioned any of the other Heritage Foundation talking points you learned from Limpballs. If you had you'd have already known the information below and how absurd are Hannity's claims that Gore is in it for the money.
So we know a few things about you so far:
you are willing to make false statements to people at DU.
you haven't the courage to face being wrong or even to engage in an honest discussion that might challenge your beliefs.
you run from threats to your world view.
You wrote:
"My claim is that BOTH sides fund studies that push the debate away from the middle. With so much at stake, monetarily AND politically, on both sides, I question the "science" on both sides. Many scientists are "kept" with big grants that come with big strings attached. If your study doesn't have a pre-determined result that supports the funders' views, it doesn't get funded. THAT is today's reality!"
"BOTH sides"?
What BOTH sides?
Where is the economic entity that is in any way comparable to the lists below:
Heard you ever heard of any of these folks that depend for their existence on selling the world 130 billion gallons of liquid petroleum fuels each year?
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION
CHEVRON CORPORATION
CONOCOPHILLIPS
KOCH INDUSTRIES INC
MARATHON OIL CORPORATION
SUNOCO INC
HESS CORPORATION
TESORO PETROLEUM CORP
ASHLAND INC
WESTERN REFINING, INC.
FRONTIER OIL CORPORATION
HOLLY CORPORATION
BIG WEST OIL LLC
CALUMET SPECIALTY PRODUCTS PARTNERS, LP
ARCH CHEMICALS, INC.
HEADWATERS INCORPORATED
VALERO LP
CARRIZO OIL & GAS, INC.
Or how about the ten largest direct CO2 emitters in US. How much do you think they made from the electricity obtained by burning (88%) of the 162,000,000 short tons of coal produced in the US in 2006?
1. American Electric Power - With 5 million customers in 11 states from Ohio to Texas, its biggest carbon emissions come from its Gavin coal plant in Cheshire, Ohio.
2. SOUTHERN - Has 4.3 million customers in the Southeast and owns the top three carbon-emitting power plants in the country: Scherer, in Juliet, Ga.; Miller in Quinton, Ala.; and Bowen in Cartersville, Ga.
3. (tie) AES CORP. - Has power plants from New York to California, with the worst emissions from its Petersburg, Ind., plant.
3. (tie) DUKE ENERGY - Serves 4 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Its Gibson plant in Owensville, Ind., is the nation's fourth-largest carbon emissions source in the power sector.
5. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY - The nation's largest public power company serves the 8.7 million residents of the Tennessee Valley. Its Cumberland City, Tenn., plant ranks eighth in the nation in CO2 emissions.
6. NRG ENERGY - A wholesale power producer that operates in deregulated electricity markets throughout the country, its W.A. Parish plant in Thompsons, Texas, is the nation's No. 5 carbon emissions source.
7. XCEL ENERGY - With 3.3 million customers in the West and Midwest, its largest carbon generator is its Sherburne County plant in Becker, Minn.
8. MIDAMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS - A Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway company, MidAmerican serves customers in Iowa, Illinois, and South Dakota, with its largest CO2 emissions from the Jim Bridger plant in Point Of Rocks, Wyo.
9. PROGRESS ENERGY - Based in Raleigh, N.C., its plant in Roxoboro, N.C., is its biggest emissions source.
10. DOMINION RESOURCES - Dominion is based in Virginia, with operations stretching into the Northeast and Midwest. Its biggest carbon emissions source is its Mount Storm, W.Va., plant.
Then we have the coal companies who mine and sell that 1,162,000,000 short tons of coal that was produced in the US in 2006. The current value for that coal is about $45/s.t. with a total value of $52.3 Billion dollars. In 2008 (when the global economy was giving us a glimpse of the future where China and India are competing for energy resources) for several months the price of coal soared to $150+/s.t. valuing US annual production at approximately $175 Billion.
Peabody Energy Corp
Rio Tinto Energy America
Arch Coal Inc
Foundation Coal Corp
CONSOL Energy Inc
Massey Energy Co
NACCO Industries Inc
Westmoreland Coal Co
Murray Energy Corp
Peter Kiewit Sons Inc
Energy Future Holdings Corp
Alliance Resource Operating Partners LP
Alpha Natural Resources LLC
Patriot Coal Corp
Intl Coal Group Inc (ICG)
Magnum Coal Co
BHP Billiton Ltd
Chevron Corp
PacifiCorp
Level 3 Communications
James River Coal Co
Trinity Coal Corp
Energy Coal Resources Inc
Walter Industries Inc
Wexford Capital LLC
Booth Energy Group
TECO Energy Inc
Western Fuels Association Inc
Rosebud Mining Co
Black Hills Corp
Now, consider that we identified the GHG emissions problem associated with fossil fuel emissions in the 1930s and we know that by 1965 it had been elevated to an issue of Presidential level concern since Johnson stated "This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through...a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels." in a Special Message to Congress.
In 1992 the UN began to come together to take action to address the threat.
How do you suppose the above companies and those like them around the world reacted?
Since 1992 how much has been made selling the approximate 130 billion gallons of liquid petroleum products used each and every year and how much is at stake going forward?
Since 1992 how much has been made selling and burning coal? How much has been made selling the electricity from that coal?
Have you ever heard of the entity started in 1989 called The Global Climate Coalition? It's a group formed predominately by the companies on the above lists.
Do you think they aligned together on Climate Change to promote "better science" when the good science that was then being done just happened to go against their interests?
Or do you think they learned a lesson from the success the tobacco industry had in deliberately muddling the science related to the effects of tobacco smoke?
Now please, tell me where is the economic entity on "the other side" that is in any way comparable to this group?
Now, are you really a fair minded person?
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