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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 Fame?

Hall of Fame Nominees:

>Bill McKibben: He is the founder of 350.org , an international grassroots organization whose goal is to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut CO2 levels to 350 ppm in order to minimize the damage from global warming. His weekly newsletter keeps followers updated on the latest research and issues in climate science.

His Award should be many new members, so please check out his newsletter.

>Kevin Cowtan and Robert G. Way: They found the ‘missing heat’ in the climate system, casting doubt on suggestions that global warming has slowed or stopped over the past decade.

Their Award should be the acclaim of having a link to their paper attached to every article which says: “Global warming has stopped”.

>The Candu Engineers: They designed the Candu nuclear reactor to run on thorium. The reactors are very fuel efficient and have been adapted to use thorium in existing reactors that already have regulatoryapproval. Award ??

>Sen. Bernie Sanders: He a strong advocate for reducing our carbon emissions. He told Senator Jim Inhofe; “The bottom line is when Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong”, adding “The 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, and the the probability of severe weather events is increasing". Award?

Update:

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Update 2:

Sorry about the multiple posts. I went back three times to correct errors in it posted them all.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    I support the CANDU Engineers. Running CANDU reactors on thorium is a real solution to global warming.

  • 7 years ago

    "Bill McKibben: He is the founder of 350.org , an international grassroots organization ..."

    "350.org has the look and feel of an amateur, grassroots operation, but in reality, it is a multi-million dollar campaign run by staff earning six-digit salaries."

    "More than half of the US$10-million came from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, where McKibben, a trustee, was paid US$25,000 per year (2001-09). Since 2007, the Rockefellers have paid US$4-million towards 1Sky and 350.org, tax returns say. The Schumann Center provided US$1.5-million to McKibben’s three campaigns as well as US$2.7-million to fund the Environmental Journalism Program at Middlebury College, in Vermont, where McKibben is on staff."

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    Kevin Cowtan and Robert G. Way: They found the ‘missing heat’

    So did lots of other people. See below. They "created" data at the poles that proved their point. Almost science.

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    >The Candu Engineers: They designed the Candu nuclear reactor to run on thorium.

    Best one so far.

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders:

    Usual political half-truths.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    The candu engineers are the only people who did anything of note.

    The "found" missing heat is a joke. What it means is that NONE of the previous models were accurate. I get that you warmers are too religiously devout to your agenda to take time to understand how the scientific method works, but you test first then claim victory. If your models did not account for the "missing heat" then they are wrong.

    Sanders is a politician who is as trustworthy as every other politician. And that grassroots organization, as you put it, is not grassroots organization. They get plenty of corporate sponsorship. In fact, from the crying like babies that the warmers do about money from the Koch brothers, you would think that the last thing you want to highlight is millions going to just one organization to keep people up to date and the latest scare-mongering.

    FSM,

    LOL, OH NO SCARY SCARY. 0.003 meters of rise a year. How long was that sign in the water?

  • 7 years ago

    I would include a young sheep herder who came up with a great way to entertain himself at the villager's expense.

    And a certain talking chicken (a "little chicken") who warned everybody about an impending disaster concerning the sky.

    These two figures certainly inspired todays crop of alarmists.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    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/hadcrut...

    Or is he referring to :

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/30/ho...

    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!

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Posting a the same question 2 times I find to be rude 3 times takes the cake

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Don't know any of them but of those 4 I pick "Bill McKibben"

    Sagebrush is lying again, Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist. [1]

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Al Gore!

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    How many more times are you going to post this rubbish

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