"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

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  1. Bowerbird

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    For those of us who have been following the denialist disinformation campaign this comes as no surprise


    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/

    We will get the inevitable "climate scientists get millions from the government" claim - a claim I have yet to see actually validated - even in part
     
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    Money against AGW = "dark money"

    Money for AGW = A-OK?

    Who but a screeching partisan would buy that idea?
     
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    All scientists get their funding from outside sources. Even the "denialists", but especially the warmists.
     
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    I have yet to get a penny from dark money and I still believe that Global Climate Change is a steaming pantload. What gives? Perhaps I haven't actually been hit with the disinformation and instead am blessed with a memory of failed AGW predictions. Please send me some disinformation and a check.
     
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    Perhaps you should become a scientist or become famous. I guess though that would require using logic about who would be funded by denier organizations
     
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    If you cant trace it how do they have an amount. And of that amount how do they know what it is being used for.....
     
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    This is the same logic that they use to describe global warming. It must exist, therefore it has to come from somewhere. They don't know where it comes from, but they'll blame the people that don't believe them anyway.
     
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    The radical left, namely gays and environmentalists are so crazy I can understand why conservative contributors not wanting their names released.

    Imagine someone masturbating in your front yard and you might feel the same way.
     
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    Good job, destroying conservative thinking one post at a time
     
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    Simple question. If you cant trace money how do you know where it went, in what amounts, and what it was used for.

    The whole premise of the "study" is based on it.
     
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    No idea, but please explain how that in anyway is connected to masturbation
     
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    No idea i am talking about the topic.

    However thank you for being honest that the study is based on a premise that is not provable.... Therefor the entire study is bunk.
     
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    Who funds the global warming hoaxsters?

    The left wants to take over the private economy and grow the government.

    And fanning the phony global warming hysteria is made to order for them.
     
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    So the earth has been around for a few billion years and, the human race has only has a documented history of weather for, a small few centuries.

    So 'climate change' believers, you're missing a few billion years of weather yet you think what we are doing is changing it.

    I don't know whether you're just plain arrogant or stupid. Maybe both.
     
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    Great - Mod Edit ~ Baiting, unnecessary innuendo.

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    So is it your claim that over those billions of years nothing has changed?
     
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    Do you deny that progressive Occupy Wall Street crazies masturbayed in public during their demonstions?

    Libs go nuts when they don't get what they want.
     
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    The topic isins demanding to know who contributes to conservatives causes and I explained why they not want lefties to know their name.
     
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    Do you claim the occupy movement represents all liberals, or that they masturbate in public?
     
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    Earth may in fact be cooling, however man made carbon may slow down the process, however most of that may get trapped in newly exposed rocks due to plate tectonics. Carbon gets recycled naturally mostly by vegetation, but lots of that gets slash and burned to create new pasturelands for growing human populations in places where such growth occurs. Most studies are imprecise, models are flawed and deliberately biased, interest groups get rich and globalization and what goes with it - offshoring makes effective enforcement of carbon control laws impossible. Australia should too stop mining and selling most of its coal to China where presumably a new coal plant goes up every day. But coal trade is primarily why Australia keeps very warm relations with China as it understands its future role as a Pacific Rim nation will be that of supplier of cheap raw materials irrespective of the carbon question/taboo.
     
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    No, that's your claim. According to you what's changing now never happened a billion years ago.
     
  21. Bowerbird

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    :roll:
    Read the article:roll:

    I did not link to the entire thing because that would be a breach of copyright
     
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    One lib masturbating in public is too many.
     
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    Even with information from the IRS what was the money used for?
     
  24. Bowerbird

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    Did you read the ENTIRE article?

    Look we KNOW that heartland, SPPI, Cato et al have been funded for DECADES - source watch and Greenpeace have tracked the funding
     
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    Imagine that they have been funded.. Gasp.. WHAT WAS THE MONEY FOR with PROOF.
     

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