Monday, March 15, 2010

YouTube - JimInhofePressOffice's Channel
Inhofe Floor Speech: "Don't Feel Sorry For Al Gore"
Why Won’t UN’s Review Panel Look at Errors in IPCC Report, Barton Asks Administration
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about his concern that the United Nations’ review of its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will not focus on the inaccuracies which prompted the review.
Tracking Electric Use Could Allow Utilities to Track You, Too - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Traditional electromechanical meters — attached to the side of a house — are typically read once a month or less. New digital meters will collect data 750 to 3,000 times a month. Such fine-grained metering, privacy experts say, will make it possible to put together a picture of household life: when the people who live there get up, when they get home, what appliances they use most and when they go on vacation.
The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up - Investors.com
Scandal: Spain exposed the boondoggle of wind power in 2009, discrediting an idea touted by the Obama administration. In response, U.S. officials banded with trade lobbyists to hide the facts.
Al's Journal : The Roots of Denial
“Oreskes said the skeptics similarly attacked the science around acid rain, the ozone hole, secondhand cigarette smoke, global warming and the pesticide DDT.”

"In every case, they denied the severity of the problem and said the science was uncertain," Oreskes said. "It was always the same argument. They always used the tobacco strategy and said it would be wrong for the government to interfere with the marketplace. It was all about using this play from the tobacco playbook."

We know the tactics, funders and mission of climate crisis deniers. It is our job to combat and debunk their skepticism at every turn.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Oreskes said the skeptics similarly attacked the science around acid rain, the ozone hole, secondhand cigarette smoke, global warming and the pesticide DDT"

And the skeptics were right, lets add Alar, Audis, Y2K,...