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Old 17-03-2009, 12:41 PM
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Re: Is the earth really dying?

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Originally Posted by meinchewster View Post
Nicely put eeyore, but to be honest I refuse to stand on the fence on issue of global warming, in the face of SO MUCH evidence, glacial melts being at record highs, extreme weather events etc, it is astonishing that some have the bottle for such scepticsm, and even with the evidence on show being massively biased toward the reality of human induced global warming some still deny it, what could be the motivation of this denial, do these people just want to drive hummers?
some do

some have vested interests in the oil/car/airline/ conspicuous consumption industry

and some are credulous and are taken in by the propoganda put about by those who have such interests.
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