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If industry can be said to only be concerned about their jobs, then can we not use that same rationale to say that green scientists who find results that may indicate global warming is caused by sun cycles more than us, but ignore those results - also guilty of protecting their own jobs? I have seen cases in the emissions industry that when you know the deep down nuts and bolts of what is going on seem to indicate this very thing.
posted by
food4thought
on June 7, 2008 at 1:40 PM
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how does one escape when
the preponderance of nonsense is relentless in its ubiquity?
posted by
mysteria
on June 6, 2008 at 8:06 AM
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...do you do this for a living?...if not you should....do this for a living that is....now you only have to figure out what "this" refers to....Moon 
posted by
magic_moon
on June 5, 2008 at 7:54 AM
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Re: Gapcohen
Global Warming may exist, but what is open to debate is whether we are the cause of it. Is the lightbulb you're using really going to melt the polar ice caps? Regardless...
anything is open to debate, and once discussion is off the table, and, "Oh, by the way, we are going to raise your taxes to support this non-debatable issue," is always un-American.
I have heard some pretty compelling arguments by scientists on the other side of the issue; granted, they're not scientists promoted and approved by the establishment media, which of course, doesn't have any kind of agenda.
How come nobody is talking about this?
Anyway, I appreciate your input -- always appreciate a good debate ;)
posted by
CunningLinguist
on June 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM
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Forevermore, you are such a treat to read. You flat out make my day and enliven my spirits with most excellent humor. I am so happy you are on Blogit! sam
posted by
sam444
on June 4, 2008 at 2:50 PM
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Forcing coal-fired power plants to reduce carbon emissons isn't what will raise prices at our gas pumps. Foreign policy and the fact that we're at war in faraway lands will. Though I do agree with you about studies in general. I got an advanced degree in statistics and you can pretty much massage results to fit your own hypothosis - unless you're talking Globsl Warming. There's not a scientist on this planet worth their pocket pen who disputes it.
posted by
gapcohen
on June 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM
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