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Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: October 14, 2013, 5:44 pm
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[move]Think About it [/move]
Most Americans consider NPR an independent media organization,
so it might surprise you that one of its biggest corporate
sponsors is the American Natural Gas Alliance, a front group
that exists only to promote some of the worst energy polluters
in America.
The ANGA has been an NPR corporate sponsor for months, using its
airtime to promote the misleading ‘think about it’ campaign that
is in fact a promotion for the dangerous and destructive
drilling process known as fracking.
NPR’s financial dependence on the fracking industry could be
fouling its news coverage, just like fracking fouls up our air,
water and climate. Fracking puts America on a path toward a
bleak energy future, with polluted land, flammable tap water and
earthquakes.
Meanwhile, clean, green energy sources like wind and solar can
provide 99 percent of our electric, transportation and
manufacturing power needs. No fracking required. even better —
every time we choose renewable energy over oil, coal and gas, we
reduce emissions, lower the cost of energy and create jobs.
When trusted news outlets like NPR take money from ANGA and
repeat their deceptive marketing claptrap — on OUR airwaves — we
have to question their objectivity.
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Sign up here to tell
NPR that when it comes to fracking, don’t even think about it.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: October 18, 2013, 4:52 pm
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: October 21, 2013, 2:22 pm
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How Change Manifests, How Action To Stop Global Warming[I] Must
[/I]Come About
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It’s obvious. Global efforts to combat climate change have
failed. International summits are full of hot air and greenhouse
gas
pollution continues to rise.
(
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If a
country bails on a climate commitment
(
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they pay a price of, well, zero.
Turns out that’s okay, ??? at least according to game theory
analyses by researchers at the University of Lisbon. Their
models
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They also say that global summits actually
impede cooperation
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Risk of
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Now, in a new report, the researchers suggest that if punishment
starts getting handed out at the local level, say
city governments
(
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what emerges is a much more cooperative global regime for
combating climate change.
Interestingly, though, the local actors must be stimulated by an
understanding that global warming means catastrophe… big time.
Thus, the remarkable bottom line to change is essentially an old
bumper sticker tagline (link added):
Nevertheless, the math of how people play games suggests that
successfully curbing carbon pollution will rely on the old
adage: think globally…
act locally (Seattle to Create Nation’s First Public Food Forest
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The journal Nature Climate Change
(
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/>describes how that proverbial pond inspires change with many
ripples from within — it is the rippling of change:
We show that a bottom-up approach, in which parties create local
institutions that punish free-riders, promotes the emergence of
widespread cooperation, mostly when risk perception is low, as
it is at present3, 7. On the contrary, global institutions
provide, at best, marginal improvements regarding overall
cooperation. Our results clearly suggest that a polycentric
approach involving multiple institutions is more effective than
that associated with a single, global one, indicating that such
a bottom-up, self-organization approach, set up at a local
scale, provides a better ground on which to attempt a solution
for such a
complex and global dilemma (U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down
11 Percent Since 2007
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Another international climate conference is coming up, this one
being held in Poland. There isn’t much optimism regarding what
is to come out of this, and it seems there’s no reason for
optimism.
What is needed is a stronger focus on creating action on the
local level. What is needed is an emphasis on communicating the
great risks and costs that come with global warming, while
showing people local solutions that they can implement in their
cities.
[move]People are starting to realize this, but the message needs
to get out to more
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and
more of us, especially the ones who are motivated
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and assertive
enough
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to push for
[color=green]meaningful
change.
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[I]DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS REPRESENTS? --->
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/><--- THAT is BIG OIL laughing at WE-THE-PEOPLE! [/I]
Are you going to sit there and TAKE THAT???
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[I]I'm not!
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Kochs gave more than $60 million to climate denial groups in the
past 15 years
By: AGelbert Date: October 27, 2013, 12:15 am
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The Kochs' Brazen Buyout of Our Democracy Is Right Up There with
the Worst Oligarchs in American History
Spending hundreds of millions to buy as much political power as
they can for a project that could earn them over $100 billion.
October 23, 2013
To understand the present, you have to understand the past,
which brings us to the story of William A. Clark.
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William A. Clark (Would you buy a used car from this man? Do you
have any idea what life was like for his copper mining
slave/employees? Do you think that his descendants owe some
money to we-the-people for the horrendous pollution caused by
said copper mining? >:( I think so.)
Clark was one of the so-called Montana “Copper Kings” of the
1800’s.
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Copper King Mansion in Butte
After making millions in the booming mining industry, and trying
his hand in the electric, newspaper, banking, and railroad
industries, Clark set his sights on political office.
Clark had always had a lifelong ambition of becoming an elected
official, and of achieving the fame and power that came with it.
In 1899, Clark made a serious push to become a U.S. senator from
Montana.
Back then, U.S. senators were chosen by their respective state
legislators.
So one afternoon Clark walked into the Montana State
Legislature, and announced that he would be standing in the back
of the room, holding envelopes filled with thousand-dollar
bills.
He said he’d give those envelopes to anyone who voted for him.
Enough legislators voted for him and took his money that Montana
sent him to Washington, D.C. as their senator for the 1900
legislative session.
But Clark’s bribery scheme was so public and brazen that even
the largely corrupt U.S. Senate was horrified. They refused to
seat him after reading newspaper stories about his passing out
thousand-dollar bills to get elected.
And it was the notoriety of Clark’s naked bribery attempt in
Montana, well reported in newspapers across the country, that
helped lead to the passage of the 17th Amendment, which says
that U.S. senators are elected by the people instead of by state
legislatures.
With all this notoriety, Clark quickly became public enemy
number one in the early 1900’s.
Speaking about Clark, Mark Twain once wrote that, “He is as
rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he
is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send
him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the
penitentiary, with a chain and ball on his legs.”
While William A. Clark may have died back in 1925, his
willingness to corrupt the American democracy and political
process is alive and well today.
Just ask the Koch Brothers. >:(
Charles and David Koch, worth a combined estimated $68 billion
in net worth, are among the driving forces behind the corruption
of our democracy.
Between 1998 and 2008, Koch brother-controlled foundations gave
more than $196 million to organizations that favor polices that
would further pad the wallets of the two brothers.
In that same time period, Koch Industries, owned by the two
brothers, spent $50 million on lobbying and handed out $8
million in PAC contributions.
The Kochs are also behind groups like Americans for Prosperity
and FreedomWorks, which both gave and continue to give major
financial support for the Tea Party movement.
And FreedomPartners, a Koch-affiliated organization, has doled
out grants worth over $230 million to a variety of conservative
organizations, Tea Party groups, and front-groups that oppose
Obamacare.
This all brings us to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Recently, the Koch Brothers have been throwing their billions at
lobbyists, front-groups, and lawmakers that support the fossil
fuel industry and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Koch Brothers are the fossil fuel industry’s largest donors
to congressmen and women who sit on the committee that oversees
the Keystone XL pipeline.
In 2010 alone, the Kochs and their employees gave over $300,000
to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
At the same time, the Kochs have given more than $60 million to
climate denial groups over the past 15 years.
Spending hundreds of millions to buy as much political power as
they can for a project that could earn them over $100 billion.
So why are the Kochs handing out so much money to groups and
lawmakers that support the Keystone XL pipeline and America’s
toxic addiction to fossil fuels?
Money. And lots of it.
According to a new report released by the International Forum on
Globalization, the brothers stand to make up to $100 billion in
profits with the approval of the pipeline.
Keep in mind they’re only worth $68 billion. This could double
their net-worth.
The report found that the Kochs and Koch Industries hold up to 2
million acres of land in Alberta, Canada, which is the proposed
starting point of the Keystone XL pipeline.
And many Koch Industries subsidiaries stand to make millions
from the pipeline's construction, including Koch Exploration
Canada, which would profit from oil exploration on its land, and
Koch Supply and Trading, which would benefit from the trading of
oil derivatives.
With a possible $100 billion windfall down the road, more than
double their combined total fortune today, it’s no surprise that
the Koch Brothers are doing everything possible to make the
Keystone XL pipeline a reality.
Their Republican allies in Congress even tried to use the
Keystone XL pipeline as leverage in the government shutdown,
demanding that it be approved before they would end the
government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
Meanwhile, you and I are stuck with the byproducts of the Koch’s
relentless pursuit of money and power.
Koch Industries is already one of the top ten polluters in the
United States, pumping millions of tons of CO2 into the
atmosphere each year, driving global warming and climate change.
And if the Keystone XL pipeline is finished, it will make things
even worse.
Synthetic crude oil from tar sands generates three times the
pollution of regular crude oil production, and is extremely
poisonous. If there were ever a leak from the pipeline, the
environmental and human damages would be horrific.
The ghost of William A. Clark is alive and well in the form of
billionaires like the Koch Brothers, who are corrupting our
political process, while destroying the environment and
poisoning us.
We can’t continue to let the likes of modern-day William A.
Clarks continue to buy off the American political process.
Thom Hartmann is an author and nationally syndicated daily talk
show host. His newest book is The Last Hours of Humanity.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: Surly1 Date: October 28, 2013, 12:00 am
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Koch article reposted on FB. Superb.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2013, 2:10 pm
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Surly,
Danke vielmals (Many thanks). ;D
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2013, 8:32 pm
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[quote]Renewables represent a drop in the bucket of global
supply.[/quote]
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[quote]They are having no effect whatsoever on fossil fuel
prices. [/quote]
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[quote]They are more expensive than fossil fuels [/quote]
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THREE INCORRECT STATEMENTS BY ENERGY EXPERT NICOLE FOSS in July
of 2012 when the ENERGY MARKET activity you will read about
below was[I] in progress SINCE 2008.[/I]
German Utilities Hammered in Market
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Favoring Renewable
Energy
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Tino Andresen, Bloomberg
August 12, 2013
Dusseldorf, Germany -- Germany, Europe’s biggest electricity
market, is beating up its traditional utilities. RWE AG and EON
SE are getting hurt by falling power prices and a shrinking
market share this year. They’re set to report second-quarter
earnings this week just as RBC Capital Markets said both may
need to raise capital.
“Lower earnings for RWE and EON have knock-on implications for
the balance sheet of both companies,” John Musk, an analyst at
RBC Capital in London, said last week. “The market has yet to
factor in the longer-term earnings impact of German power
prices,” which have dropped about 27 percent in a year.
Across Europe and some of the U.S., utilities that a decade ago
dominated markets now struggle to cope with lower prices
exacerbated by subsidized renewables that don’t pay fuel costs.
The pain is most acute in Germany, which led the world
installing solar farms and has the largest offshore wind plans.
Clean energy also has preference over fossil fuels in European
wholesale markets, a job killer at traditional utilities.
EON of Dusseldorf and Essen-based RWE are considering halting
coal and gas plants with capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts and
can supply 21 cities the size of Cologne, risking some of the
combined workforce of more than 10,000.
“A significant part of our business model is now facing new
challenges,” RWE Chief Financial Officer Bernhard Guenther said
in an interview, without being specific about halts or jobs.
“Whatever we do in terms of cost and capex-cutting won’t fully
compensate the profit loss we see in conventional power
generation.” A RWE spokeswoman said there was nothing to add.
Merkel Response
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has said it wants to
reform the country’s clean-energy subsidy law after the Sept. 22
elections and also rework the design of the country’s power
market. The German renewable boom has caused “huge problems for
the system,” Merkel said June 12 in Berlin.
RWE shares slumped to a decade-low last week and EON did
likewise last month, as analysts reduced earnings forecasts.
“We have never seen mothballing to this extent,” Susanne Nies,
head of energy policy and generation at the Eurelectric AISBL
lobby group, said by phone from Brussels. Europe’s power demand
will be lower in 2020 than in 2010, and utilities have
“massively overestimated demand for gas-fired power.”
Musk said the two may have to tap investors for cash in the next
few years, estimating that RWE may have a capital need of about
2.5 billion euros ($3.3 billion), and EON may require 4 billion
euros to maintain its rating, in a note to investors.
EON Reporting
EON tomorrow is expected to report first-half adjusted earnings
almost halved from a year earlier, according to analyst
estimates compiled by Bloomberg, while RWE will report on the
following day.
Both utilities were among the biggest decliners in Germany’s
benchmark DAX index today, with RWE falling as much as 1.9
percent to 20.91 euros and down 1.5 percent at 12:59 p.m. in
Frankfurt trading. EON dropped as much as 1.8 percent to 12.03
euros and was down 1.4 percent at the time.
The retrenchment is mirrored in the U.S., where burgeoning
rooftop solar panels eat into the market share of utilities from
New York to Hawaii. :icon_mrgreen: In Japan, the government is
opening the market, giving traditional suppliers such as Tokyo
Electric Power Co. pressure from new rivals.
Germany’s four largest power producers had only invested enough
in clean energy to control 4.9 percent of renewable capacity by
2012, according to Bremen-based Trendresearch GmbH, and the
country will increasingly rely on wind and solar to fill the gap
left by the nuclear phaseout. The share of renewables in
generation more than tripled to 22 percent in 2012 from 2000.
Shares Slump :emthup: :icon_mrgreen:
“The adaptation of the conventional power-plant fleet is
indispensable because renewables get preference on the grid,”
said Thomas Deser, a portfolio manager at Union Investment GmbH,
which holds EON and RWE.
EON and RWE’s cost-cutting strategies haven’t stopped stock
slides. Together have lost about 76 percent of the $200 billion
combined market value they had in early 2008.
RWE has slumped 32 percent this year in German trading, the most
among companies on Europe’s STOXX 600 Utilities index. EON has
lost 13 percent. Both are unlikely to recover any time soon,
according to Commerzbank AG.
“We have intact, long-term downsize trends at EON and RWE,”
Petra Kerssenbrock, a technical analyst at Commerzbank, said by
phone from Frankfurt.
Profit Forecast
At EON, adjusted profit may drop 40 percent this year, according
to the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. “For
newer power plants there is always a latent risk for
writedowns,” Chief Financial Officer Marcus Schenck said in an
interview in May. EON kept its unprofitable Irsching 4 and 5
gas-fired generators in Bavaria running only after a
compensation deal with regulator Bundesnetzagentur and grid
operator TenneT TSO GmbH signed in April.
RWE’s income has declined for the past three years and is
forecast to fall again next year.
“It’s all about shutting power plants with a negative cash
flow,” Patrick Hummel, an analyst at UBS AG, said by phone from
Zurich. Unlike a decade ago when utilities reduced capacity to
push up electricity on the market, the current halts “won’t work
to drive the power price,” he said.
Independent Producers
Independent power producers such as Wpd AG, Juwi AG and S.A.G.
Solarstrom AG invested earlier and more heavily in wind and
solar power, cutting into the share supplied by RWE and EON.
German year-ahead power price dropped 27 percent over the past
12 months, according to broker data compiled by Bloomberg. The
contract, a European benchmark, traded at 36.70 euros a
megawatt-hour today.
While utilities across Europe have seen demand dwindle, those in
Germany are also contending with a phase-out of nuclear energy.
RWE and EON acknowledge the decision to close all reactors by
2022 forces them to abandon plants they had counted on to
produce income for years.
Smaller competitor EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG said last
month it will shut four plants in Marbach and Walheim following
“a drastic fall in revenue.” The utility expects earnings from
generation and trading to plunge as much 40 percent this year.
The shift from fossil fuels has also hurt other operators in the
country. Vattenfall AB, a Swedish utility with coal and nuclear
plants in Germany, announced plans July 23 to split off
non-Nordic units after writing down $4.6 billion. It will have
to cut investments and push through deeper cost cuts, it said,
partly blaming the failure of nations to align policies.
“The idea of an integrated European energy market is in
shambles,” Chairman Lars G. Nordstroem said last month. “Energy
politics is becoming increasingly national. Everyone looks at
their [I]natural assets [/i]and their policies.” :emthup:
:icon_sunny:
Copyright 2013 Bloomberg
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FOSSIL FUELS!
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During the 1970s, Big Oil began the "New Ice Age" Prop
aganda LIE!
By: AGelbert Date: October 31, 2013, 10:31 pm
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1970s: The decade the Fossil Fuel Industry began the "New Ice
Age" Propaganda LIE!
Why do I bring up what appears to be ancient history? ???
Because they are BACK
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reason they started their propaganda in the 1970s, to keep
renewable energy from pricing fossil fuels out of the market!
FOSSIL FUELERS HERE
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I have written about the Marshall institute propaganda mill and
how Big Oil has "defended" itself with lies and duplicity as
well as bought and paid for "scientists".
Feeling threatened again, the fossil fuel industry is back with
a new bit of ice age poppycock, but with a twist.
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The propagandists are arguing that back in the 1970s, the
scientific consensus believed an ice age was at hand and they
have been proven WRONG. Consequently, we CANNOT BELIEVE THEM NOW
when they say global warming is with us. >:(
The only "MINOR PROBLEM" ;D with that bit of clever doubletalk
is that the CONSENSUS in the 1970s WAS NEVER that a new Ice age
was coming.
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In fact, those were the early propaganda efforts by big oil that
represented a minuscule quantity of credentialed WHORES paid to
lie among a tiny group of scientists and a several
NON-SCIENTIFIC media stories with NO SCIENCE behind them
WHATSOEVER. You know the drill: Top scientists say blah, blah
(no names) ;). Top research lab says blah blah (no research lab
named) ;). The media are EXPERTS at spin used to defend moneyed
interests (in this case, the fossil fuel industry).
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Here's the REAL STORY of what went down in the 1970s:
[quote]
What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?
1970s ice age predictions were predominantly media based. The
majority of peer reviewed research at the time predicted warming
due to increasing CO2.
Climate Myth...
Ice age predicted in the 70s
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"[M]any publications now claiming the world is on the brink of a
global warming disaster said the same about an impending ice age
– just 30 years ago. Several major ones, including The New York
Times, Time magazine and Newsweek, have reported on three or
even four different climate shifts since 1895." (Fire and
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Mainstream Media
What was the scientific consensus in the 1970s regarding future
climate? The most cited example of 1970s cooling predictions is
a 1975 Newsweek article "The Cooling World" that suggested
cooling "may portend a drastic decline for food production." ;)
"Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the
cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that
the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of
the century." ::)
A 1974 Time magazine article Another Ice Age? painted a
similarly bleak picture:
"When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the
globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually
cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication
of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming
increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are
studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
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Peer-Reviewed Literature
[size=14pt]However, these are media articles, not scientific
studies. A survey of peer reviewed scientific papers from 1965
to 1979 show that few papers predicted global cooling (7 in
total). ;)
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Significantly more papers (42 in total) predicted global warming
(Peterson 2008).
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/>large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the
Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than 1970s
scientists predicting cooling, [color=red]the opposite is the
case.
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Figure 1: Number of papers classified as predicting global
cooling (blue) or warming (red). In no year were there more
cooling papers than warming papers (Peterson 2008).
Scientific Consensus
In the 1970s, the most comprehensive study on climate change
(and the closest thing to a scientific consensus at the time)
was the 1975 US National Academy of Sciences/National Research
Council Report. Their basic conclusion was "…we do not have a
good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what
determines its course. Without the fundamental understanding, it
does not seem possible to predict climate…"
This is in strong contrast with the current position of the US
National Academy of Sciences:
"
...there is now strong evidence that significant global warming
is occurring...
It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be
attributed to human activities...
The scientific understanding of climate change is now
sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action."
This is in a joint statement with the Academies of Science from
Brazil, France, Canada, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan,
Russia and the United Kingdom.
In contrast to the 1970s, there are now a number of scientific
bodies that have released statements affirming man-made global
warming. More on scientific consensus...
•National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
•Environmental Protection Agency
•NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies
•American Geophysical Union
•American Institute of Physics
•National Center for Atmospheric Research
•American Meteorological Society
•The Royal Society of the UK
•Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
•American Association for the Advancement of Science
Reasoning Behind Cooling Predictions
[b]Quite often, the justification for the few global cooling
predictions in the 1970s is overlooked. Probably the most
famous such prediction was Rasool and Schneider (1971):[/b]
"An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background
concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface
temperature by as much as 3.5°K." ;)
Yes, their global cooling projection was based on a quadrupling
of atmospheric aerosol concentration. This wasn't an entirely
unrealistic scenario - after all, sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions
were accelerating quite rapidly up until the early 1970s (Figure
2). These emissions caused various environmental problems, and
as a result, a number of countries, including the USA, enacted
SO2 limits through Clean Air Acts. As a result, not only did
atmospheric aerosol concentrations not quadruple, they declined
starting in the late 1970s:
SO2 emissions
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Figure 2: Global sulfur dioxide emissions by source (PNNL)
Similarly, if we now limit CO2 emissions, we can also eventually
get global warming under control.
Summary
[move]So global cooling predictions in the 70s amounted to media
and a handful of peer reviewed studies.[/move]
The small number of papers predicting cooling were outweighed by
a much greater number of papers predicting global warming due to
the warming effect of rising CO2.
Today, an avalanche of peer reviewed studies and overwhelming
scientific consensus endorse man-made global warming.
To compare cooling predictions in the 70s to the current
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Additionally, we reduced the SO2 emissions which were causing
global cooling.
The question remains whether we will reduce the CO2 emissions
causing global warming.
Last updated on 7 April 2011 by John Cook.[/quote]
skepticalscience.com
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Agelbert NOTE: There are several definitions for the word
"SNOW". Among those is a VERB. :evil4:
To SNOW someone. ... deceive, lead astray, betray - cause
someone to believe an untruth;
[move]Try not to get SNOWED about global cooling.[color=green]
It's good for the fossil fuelers and nuke pukes and BAD FOR THE
PLANET! [/color] [img width=80
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: November 1, 2013, 6:30 pm
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Please study the dismal >:( infographic below:
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The matter of world shaking importance for our energy needs that
it leaves out is CHEMURGY (more on chemurgy - making anything,
now made from hydrocarbons, from plant based carbohydrates after
you have become thoroughly depressed by the "we are all going to
die without oil"
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Are we doomed without fossil fuels?
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ACTUALLY, we are DOOMED if we KEEP BURNING fossil fuels! ???
SAY WHAT? :o
1.The burning of fossil fuels is destroying the biosphere humans
depend on to survive. We have no other option but to stop
burning them and work to bioremediate the biosphere with
actions that include, but are not limited to, returning to 350
ppm of CO[sub]2[/sub]
2. At more than $ 72 a barrel for crude oil (a price left
behind long ago in the constant rise of price per barrel), all
fuels, lubricants, pharmaceuticals and plastics now made from
hydrocarbons can be made cheaper AND WITHOUT ADDING POLLUTANTS
TO THE ATMOSPHERE from duckweed refineries.
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We
need fossil fuels like a hole in the
head!
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You heard it FIRST HERE!
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Duckweed, the Miracle Biofuel Plant Part 1
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
By: AGelbert Date: November 6, 2013, 1:26 pm
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Big Oil And Climate Change
Denial
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If you’ve been following the climate change denial lobby, you
probably know until a few years ago one of the most notorious
climate change deniers in the oil industry was Exxon Mobil. The
company was a major funder of the lobbying organization
Heartland Institute, a leading force in anti-climate management
efforts.
[move]Koch Brothers lobby against production tax credit for
wind.
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By 2007, Exxon Mobil was publicly ;) disavowing its denialist
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/>and the company cut ties to Heartland, ;) but since then the
Koch brothers have more than made up the difference (for those
of you new to the topic, Koch Industries has been challenging
climate management on a wide array of fronts).
As far as the relationship between AEA and the Koch brothers
goes, while the organization is not required to disclose its
sources, our friends over at SourceWatch have connected the dots
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for us. ;D
According to SourceWatch, AEA was founded in 2008 by Thomas
Pyle,
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/>who also serves as its current president. Pyle’s roots are in
the petrochemical industries lobby, which includes work for Koch
Industries.
;)
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Pyle is also the President of AEA’s sister organization, the
Institute for Energy Research (IER), which according to a report
by Greenpeace continues to receive both direct and indirect
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[move]They Write
Letters
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AEA’s anti-wind tax credit letter is brief and to the point,
positioning itself as a grass roots effort with 100 signing
organizations representing “millions of Americans.”
Agelbert NOTE: The old ASTRO TURF TRICK. ::)
That positioning is reinforced by AEA’s website, which features
the following warning on its home page…
Thanks to Big Wind the hidden cost of wind energy may get even
MORE expensive.
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…along with an exhortation to retweet the following message:
Big Wind’s tax credit already cost tax payers $12B
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and now they want more? Time to #EndtheWindGiveaway via @AEA
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However, among the many grass roots style names on the list is a
generous helping of “Big”
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organizations openly
supported by the Koch brothers, including the 60 Plus
Association, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedomworks.
As for those groups with grass roots-sounding ;) names, it’s
worth noting that several are Tea Party affiliates. Though
positioning itself as a grass roots movement, the Tea Party is a
corporate creature as revealed by a recent peer-reviewed study
that examines the decades-long linkage between the use of
astroturfing by the tobacco lobby, anti-climate management
efforts, and Koch brothers funding, which resulted in the
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The Tea Party affiliates on the list include the Greenfield Area
Tea Party, the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party, the Outer
Banks Tea Party, the State Coordinator (OH) Tea Party Patriots,
and the Georgia Tea Party, Inc.
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We’re not saying that a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel,
but if anyone out there is familiar with the money behind any
other “grass roots” organizations on the list, feel free to drop
us a note in the comment thread.
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*Clarification: The American Energy Alliance is a signatory to
the letter, which is part of an Americans for Prosperity
project.
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Read more at
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