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Monday, October 08, 2012
Global Whatever
The planet is heating up – the weather is getting weirder – and Americans are getting fed disinformation. A new report – published in the Environmental Research Letters journal – looked at more than 2,000 newspaper articles from the US, the UK, France, China, Brazil, and India – to determine just how much coverage the opinions of climate skeptics are getting in major newspapers. The study found that in the US and the UK – climate skeptics were getting a lot more column space than actual credible climate scientists. The lead author of the study – James Painter – said, "These results are significant because they do seem to support those who argue that climate scepticism is much stronger in 'Anglo-Saxon' countries, such as the US, UK, Canada and Australia, as measured by its presence in the media." Several studies have shown there are much higher percentages of climate skeptics in the US and UK than in other developed nations. It's time to call out the oil industry and their bought off "scientists" who are destroying the planet to make short-term profits.
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AMEN!!
sustainability...
I have no doubt our climate is changing. I'm not a scientist but even I know that millions of years ago - during an ice age - what is now New York was buried under an ice bench (not sure how deep it was - 2000 feet?) but it was big.
Admittedly it was quite some time ago, but when I was in school in science class they taught how the earth goes through heating and cooling periods. These incidents happen over hundreds of thousands of years. I have no doubt that we are going through a change period, but I believe it is just the normal change the earth goes through and there is nothing that we can do to prevent it. There is also nothing that we do to cause it.
I remember back in the 70s they were saying we were getting to go into another ice age. Mother nature will do as she pleases and all we can do is go along for the ride.
The "bought off 'scientists'", funded by taxpayers all over the globe, esp. in the UK, have conspired to keep legitimate scientifiic skepticism out of the conversation. The people paying their salaries are starting to smarten up and look for other answers.
No matter what inning nor what you throw at her, Mother Nature gets the last at bat.
Prepare to adapt to not outwit her. Losing game.
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