Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Climate Deniers

Here are the facts: The ONLY issue that is "debated" by climatologists is the range, scope, and severity of global climate change NOT whether it is happening or not, or how much of it is anthropogenic. The only ones that are doubting it is man made at all or that it is a hoax are not skeptics, they are CRANKS.

Quite literally, some of the same scientists that "proved" that cigarettes are healthy and nutritious are the same being paid by the oil industry to mislead the hysterical and ignorant.




Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming







Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming







The root core is that too many in the public are far too suceptible to "experts" who have lots of letters after their name. They will whip up hysteria of things that are not even a real threat, while misleading from issues that are pressing and urgent.




Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health



Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Dispelling Some Global Warming Myths

Critics of Climate Change (so-called "Climate Change Deniers") suggest that weather records have only been kept for the past century and a half. However, this is a bit misleading. First of all, it's a bit ethnocentric. In other regions in the world, some sorts of weather records have been kept for thousands of years, albeit not in the scientific and focused way it's done today. Furthermore, because there aren't such exact human artifacts of numbers left DOES NOT MEAN that we don't know what climate and weather patterns and atmospheric content was in the past.

For example cores taken of the earth's crust reveal considerable climate information. Ice cores taken in glaciers track climate, weather, and atmospheric conditions GOING BACK 100,000 OF YEARS!! We can even extrapolate the flux of CO2 in the atmosphere over this extremely long time period!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Jonathan Safran Foer

12/7/09 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan

MC: Abigail Pogrebin, Journalist

Jonathan Safran Foer
Author of "Eating Animals"

Raising of livestock is the biggest contributor to every environmental problem we have.

Accounts for 51% of all greenhouse gases, that means it contributes more than every other factor combined.

The factory farm system is inherently cruel to animals.

The head of the U.N. Global Warming Commission:


Should "taste" allow us to confine and eat animals. Like sex, because we have limits to having sex with animals, what's the difference with killing them because they taste good. Senses and drives should not make us exempt from ethical concerns.

Is Vegetarianism the next stage for moral accountability and development?


Frank Bruni "Born Round"