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Originally Posted by eeyore  you mean apart from the enourmouse injections of cash they get from the oil companies and related interests who have a vested interest in denying...... |
When you said ‘Enormous’, it prompted me to take a look at the prospectus of Heartland Institute. (Its called research, you may enjoy it) I found they received $5.2M USD in 2007 and 16% of that was from corporations. If we were to say this enormous sum of $832,000 all came from Exxon, how would this or even the total $5.2M compare to the funding to the IPCC? With Billions of dollars going into U.N. and IPCC Alarmism and funding given to any ‘Climate Specialist’ willing to blame Uncle Bob’s dyspepsia on global warming, are we actually surprised about “seeing evidence everywhere”? Even in these threads, I find if one wants to attain a title, one must do his/her duty by attacking deniers. (Hypocrisy a plus, Spell-check not required)
You do mention the CO2 release from cement and I remind you that foundations of these wind turbines are giant footings made of concrete. It will take 5 years of operation for a windmill to offset its own carbon footprint (if high winds do not knock its blades into your house).
I did so want to draft a few lines on how you and I thought the same on some issues, but alas, the disregard of human life portrayed by your plan of creating scarce supplies of energy and investigating solutions later has put me off. It would be more humane for the Alarmists to Goosestep through India, Africa and elderly communities throughout the world with pistols in hand. You all know the limitation of energy will kill these people, why make them suffer slowly, just put a bullet in their brain.
P.S. Polar Bears are really quite cute you know. Let's keep them.