Would you trust a global-warming denier to forecast the weather?

[BushOut06]

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=3a9bc8a4-802a-23ad-4065-7dc37ec39adf

I hope this guy loses his job over this. As I've stated before, these people are not only wrong, they're outright dangerous. It's people like this that give "credibility" to the far-right wingnuts who want to continue denying there is a problem. Ignoring the preponderance of evidence around us, they'd prefer to stick their heads up their asses while the Earth marches towards a point of no return, jeopardizing much of the life on this planet.

[WindRavenX]

1. I sure as fuck wouldn't

It would be the same if a doctor recommended something like magic for curing an ailent.

[WindRavenX]

2. I'm gonna kick this b/c it's an important question

:kick:

[nam78_two]

3. No kidding...K&R.nt

[johnaries]

4. WTF? He claims that scientists who support the human-induced

global warming theory are paid off? It's the ones who are claiming that it's fake that are being paid-off by Exxon-Mobil!

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3–A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.

"ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer," said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' Director of Strategy & Policy. "A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years."

more at site: http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html

more from Google: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-19,GWYA:en&q=exxon+mobil+global+warming

Further, all of the research by the Global Warming scientists have been peer-reviewed, meaning other scientists have looked at their papers and agree that their methods and conclusions are valid. None of the "Global Warming Hoax" papers have been peer-reviewed, which means they can make any crazy claim they want and no one has been allowed to call them on it.

edit to add: It is these "manmade global warming skeptics" who have chosen to ignore science in favor of politics, and as such SHOULD be de-certified.

[Zodiak]

6. Yes, wingnuts impugn good scientists

and their arguments carry water for their blind followers because most people do not know how the field of research works. In science, if it is not peer-reviewed, it might as well be no research at all.

On the other hand, a scientist can free himself of all of this if they are just willing to lie for Exoon-Mobil. It's a good way to get the student loans paid off and not have to produce any REAL work (which is painstaking, tedious, and demanding) in the interim. I know more than one graduate student who would happily sell their soul to produce junk science for corporations.

[gulfcoastliberal]

5. It's humanity marching toward no return...

The earth will be fine without us, once out toxic legacy is washed away by eons of time.

[Coventina]

7. For those interested: There's a thread in LBN about this issue

There's global warming skeptics even among "progressives".

[leftchick]

8. I would not trust a "weatherman" to tell me anything about the climate

I leave that to the Climatologists. What an idiot.