Good news, you can earn $10,000 from ExxonMobil (actually, the money is being funneled through the American Enterprise Institute) simply for refuting global warming science! The catch? It's helpful if you have a PhD & are willing to put aside troubling little things like ethics.


Here are some other interesting things that eventually find their way onto FAUX NEWS so that the simple-minded can repeat (despite all evidence to the contrary) their Sean Insanity-imposed mantra: "There's no such thing as human-caused global warming:"

ExxonSecrets Factsheet: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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Yea I had heard about this as well. Guess it pretty much is down to panic time for Bush and the administration when it comes to the science on global warming. Still not sure I agree with everything they are saying in the report summary, however I definately do not agree with paying scientists to come to a specific conclusion. If there were evidence of Greenpeace or some other like minderd group doing it I would not agree with that either.

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I found this one tonight - personally I think this kind of thing is more of a concern.

I know that here there were reports of some CSIRO scientists not being allowed to make their research on rising sea levels public (maybe a year ago). IT is a real concern to me.

I appreciate that they don't want people to panic, however the reality is that if we are out in the open with it, identifying the 'demons' of global warming and looking at ways to address them, we will be better off.

To be honest I also feel there is an element of racism in the issue. Most of the people who are now directly experiencing impacts og GW are poor brown skinned people. sometimes it seems to me that by pretending its not happening we are leaving htem to a fate that, in large part, has been caused by us wanting to maintain the lifestyle we have, and yet I believe that we will not be doing anything substantial to help them to relocate, or to feed them ... in fact I am pretty sure we will be saying that its their own fault for having too many babies, letting their goats graze in fragile ecosystems, not moving to higher ground (as if this is abundant in various low lying countries), for living where they do ... for not being more industrious and proactive ... etc etc.

Sorry to go off topic Mark - but I think that attempts to distort the information don't only exist in the boardrooms of big business.

Not at all off-topic. I've also been following Hansen's story for nearly a year now, & though troubling, is not at all surprising. What they're doing to people like Hansen is simply the flip-side of the same coin of paying other scientists to refute Hansen.

These people are beyond irresponsible. I'm greatly chagrined by anyone who can come on here and pretend to support this administration or pretend that there's no problem re: greenhouse gasses. They remind me of the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" chimp posters that used to be all the rage 20 years back. A bunch of scary puppet-people, that lot.

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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket."

Thomas Jefferson

I find it amazing and terrifying that the government would edit scientific findings.

why Sam?

keeping people in the dark and feeding them on bullshit is not unusual as a way of keeping control ...

and it may be even more important in a democracy ....

Hey, we're just like mushrooms. Kept in the dark & fed shit.

Brilliant!

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Thomas Jefferson

How about the fact that the temperature hasn’t risen since the invention of the thermometer.
The .5 degrees is from measuring tolerances…

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Hank where do you come up with these erroneous ideas?

How interesting that they are doing this as a contest instead of privately funding the research.
Wonder what the motivation is.

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Do you know how much data they had to throw out to find that particular temp at that particular local.
There very good at counterfeit truth and deceit, didn’t you think it odd they didn’t use -say “Virginia” or kinda mention they didn’t have a 1,700 foot thermometer over a hundred years ago (At that pressure steel would crush, they had like iron…).
Fram Strait, give me a break.

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What makes Greenland and Norway less valid than Virginia?

They probably did measure Virginia. (And hundreds of other places where they got no results..) That’s who they are, that’s what they do…

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$10,000 isnt much for the amount of time it would take to prove something like that. Face it, neither side can conclusively prove it either way. Its the future. How can you prove the future is going to happen?

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

This is kind of interesting.


Official defends editing climate papers - Yahoo! News

Waxman's committee also heard from James Hansen, director of
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the country's leading climate scientists, who said the White House repeatedly tried to control what government scientists say to the public and media about climate change.
"Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career," said Hansen, who was one of the first to raise concerns about climate change in the 1980s.