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Jesse
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Jesse asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 7 years ago

Poll: Who should be in the Environmental Hall of Shame?

Please take the poll at the address below or put your choice as a comment.

Hall of Shame Nominees:

>The Executive Producers and Hosts of the five Sunday Morning talk shows: They have done a terrible job of covering climate change. Their coverage of the topic dropped from an inadequate 61 minutes in 2009 to a four-year low of 8 minutes in 2012.

>James Delingpole: He is not a scientist, yet he wrote columns for the Telegraph denying climate change and personally attacking climate scientists, comparing them to Nuremberg criminals and suggesting they be tortured. Award??

>The Koch Bothers: They own almost 2 million acres of Alberta tar sands land where the Keystone XL pipeline originates. If approved, much of the tar sands products will be shipped to other countries after refining, but it will put the central United States at risk for oil spills and leave environmentally hazardous residue behind after refining.

Award??

>The George C. Marshall Institute: They espouse “Science for a Better Public Policy” but they specialize in churning out misinformation about Climate Change. Realizing they could not dispute the scientific evidence, they developed the strategy of “Doubt Is Our Product”, i.e. creating doubt about the scientific evidence and the scientific consensus to keep effective action from being taken. Their Award should be a copy of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, who exposed their strategy.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Of those 4 I pick "the Koch Bothers"

    Sagebrush is lying again, Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist. [1] And it is no surprise that Sagebrush is trying to defend Senator Jim Inhofe who gets the tax payers to fund his Jesus trips and is outraged that people are outraged about torture. [2]

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I still pick the anti-Keystone pipeline advocates. Global warming is caused by the final end user, and they should look at their own consumption habits, and not blame Canada.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA

  • 7 years ago

    obama permitted the gulf coast to be contaminated with toxic corexit. the purpose of dumping toxic corexit into the gulf was to destroy the shrimp and oyster industries to make way for the massive development of algae farms for biofuel. corexit is still being dumped into the gulf of mexico today. once the gulf ecosystem is killed off, biofuel makers will be able to hijack the water for algae farms without resistance from the shrimp and oyster industry.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Ha! Ha! Bernie Sanders is a Communist. He is a big man with the greenies.

    He addressed claims made by fellow Senator Jim Inhofe; “The bottom line is when Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong”, adding “research shows the climate is changing in response to man’s activities. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing, the temperature of the Earth is rising, the oceans are becoming more acidic, glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, the probability of severe weather events is increasing, and weather-related natural disasters are becoming more frequent and more costly “.

    "The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing" So what?

    "the temperature of the Earth is rising." No it is not. Dirty boldfaced lie.

    http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:2...

    Or is he referring to :

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/30/how-long-bef...

    0.87 degrees in 353 years. I can most certainly tell you that Bernie's body temperature has fluctuated more than that.

    "the oceans are becoming more acidic" So is my stomach when I read this stuff. But anyway, so what?

    "glaciers and polar ice caps are melting" So what?! They do that every year. And crappy scientists get stuck in ice in the summertime in Antarctica. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

    "sea levels are rising" The sea is the same level as it was when the Pilgrims landed.

    "the probability of severe weather events is increasing" Probability? He is scaring us with probabilities that will never come true?

    "are becoming more frequent and more costly “. How many hurricanes have struck the US since the year of Katrina? So in fact they are less frequent and this is a dirty boldface lie. More costly?! Sandy, which wasn't a hurricane when it hit land caused more monetary damage than most hurricanes. So the cost is not the intensity but where the storm lands.

    Bernie, the hero of the greenies, gets on the floor of our legislatures and lies, distorts facts, makes claims that are non-issues and creates impressions of calamity on events that have happened since before man lit his first match.

    BTW he forgot farmer Brown's chickens stopped laying and his Aunt Josephine's hang nail started growing faster.

    Here we have the supreme example of a great greenie. Creates a crises out of natural events for his own agenda. This man is the HERO of the greenies and he is a proven liar and calamity howler. They want to promote him to the Hall of Fame!

    How stupid and crooked can you get!

    Now let us look at the Koch Bros.

    The Koch Bothers: They own almost 2 million acres of Alberta tar sands land where the Keystone XL pipeline originates. If approved, much of the tar sands products will be shipped to other countries after refining, but it will put the central United States at risk for oil spills and leave environmentally hazardous residue behind after refining.

    "almost 2 million acres of Alberta tar sands land" So? That makes them horrible people? How much does Al Gore have invested in oil? I'm sure you don't want that subject brought up.

    "where the Keystone XL pipeline originates" Hm-m-m didn't know that there was a Keystone pipeline. I thought our illustrious President put a kibosh on that plan.

    "If approved, much of the tar sands products will be shipped to other countries" If not approved, much of that petroleum will be shipped to China who will eagerly pay for it.

    "but it will put the central United States at risk for oil spills" It is now being shipped by trucks owned by Buffet. Trucks have a smaller throughput and are a definitely higher risk. Plus trucks go through highly populous areas where the pipeline goes through mostly wilderness areas.

    So to a greenie it is criminal to supply jobs, own land, transport oil safer and refine oil. But you can get on the podium, produce nothing usable to mankind, lie, distort truths, and create a crises where none exists and you are a hero. This just proves GREENIES are sick people.

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    CNN for blaming everything on climate change, including earthquakes and asteroid strikes

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