Who stands to make money off climate change?

oliver klozoff wrote:

chuckie darwin wrote:

Ha, suddenly the Wall F***ing Street Journal casts making a profit as sinister?? I love it!

It's sinister when you use a false crisis and governemnt coercion.

Oh goodness where has that not been done before.

Are you in elementary school?

Let's try an experiment. You numbskulls try reading facts on your own, not just regurgitating what Hannity and Sen. Inhofe say.

Here's a start, it's completely free:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-333Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm

It might hurt your brain a little to think on your own, but the first time is always painful. Remember kids, learning can be fun.

You can always tell those who can't defend their arguments because they resort to name calling the quickest. BTW, you spelled congratulations incorrectly.

10/10, another perfect score!!

I agree with the skeptics, the best course of action would definitely be to ignore global warming.

Pompous Prick wrote:

Let's assume the "consensus" is correct - humans are the driving force behind climate change. Let's also assume that we can completely stop emitting CO2. Will the climate stop changing? Will it get warmer or colder? How much of the planet will be covered by ice? Will sea level rise or fall? Will the glaciers that are receding start growing while the glaciers that are growing start receding? Will the Northwest Passage be frozen shut, or will it be open like it was when Roald Amundsen sailed through in 1905? What's the correct temperature of the earth anyway?

Great questions! Think you will get any intelligent answers?

oliver klozoff wrote:

It's sinister when you use a false crisis and governemnt coercion.

Who stands to make money off of the war in Iraq? Who stands to make money off of the terrorist "threat"?

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

oliver klozoff wrote:

It's sinister when you use a false crisis and governemnt coercion.

Who stands to make money off of the war in Iraq? Who stands to make money off of the terrorist "threat"?

I thought this thread was about profiting from "global warming." Exaggerating terrorist threats is a great way for politicians to get re-elected. I'm not soft on terrorism like el duderino over there!

However, at least terrorism is real. Efforts to control the climate are arrogant, stupid, and a big money waster. Platonic form of false crisis.

So far I can't even get a stupid answer, let alone an intelligent one.

"Who stands to make money off climate change?"

Given the number of responses to this thread, I'd say the BrosJo could make some decent ad revenue from the subject...

Ah? Doesn't heat cause evaporation? And doesn't evaporation cause rain? And doesn't rain re-distribute water? And wouldn't some of that redistributied rain water fall in the south?

Please, stay out of the way, you just make yourself look foolish.

Ha! SNL has indeed sucked for decades now, but you, sir, provide comedy gold.

Dead-on caricature of the dumbass rednecks who believe fifteen seconds of their 75 IQ common sense "reasoning" trumps the individual and collective wisdom of thousands of smart, educated, experienced professionals who have devoted years of their careers to studying the subject.

chuckie darwin wrote:

thousands of smart, educated, experienced professionals who have devoted years of their careers to studying the subject.

...and profiting hugely from proving a certain outcome.

chuckie darwin wrote:

thousands of smart, educated, experienced professionals who have devoted years of their careers to studying the subject.

oliver klozoff wrote:

...and profiting hugely from proving a certain outcome.

Ahem, atmospheric science professors and state meteorologists don't make that much money. Sorry to burst your bubble.

If you think they do, maybe you found your new career since it's such an easy job.

It is all b/shit when you are watch your years of hard work being washed down the drain.

But of course they're profiting enormously - in recent years climatologists have come to dominate the Forbes "richest people" list.

Hands up, anyone who actually believes what you're typing in this thread.

Oh good, I didn't really want to think so. You're just having fun pulling people's chains. Carry on!

chuckie darwin wrote:

You're just having fun pulling people's chains. Carry on!

It is a delight. But seriously, skeptics aren't the only ones devoted to/heavily invested. The green lobby/alternative energy needs more evidence to take off. I'd bet numbers and data are being fudged and there's money involved, but that's just me.

Check the data guys- not much warming going on since the huge spike of 1998. In fact, the past couple years have been trending downward.

This, despite a continuous increase in CO2 gas being pumped into mother nature's mouth.

Sun spots anyone?

chuckie darwin wrote:

Ah? Doesn't heat cause evaporation? And doesn't evaporation cause rain? And doesn't rain re-distribute water? And wouldn't some of that redistributied rain water fall in the south?

Please, stay out of the way, you just make yourself look foolish.

Ha! SNL has indeed sucked for decades now, but you, sir, provide comedy gold.

Dead-on caricature of the dumbass rednecks who believe fifteen seconds of their 75 IQ common sense "reasoning" trumps the individual and collective wisdom of thousands of smart, educated, experienced professionals who have devoted years of their careers to studying the subject.

Chuckie, you'll have to go back and read the post SNL Sucks was responding to. It was predicting a desert in the midwest and 50% of all species dying in the next 89 years. A claim no scientist has made. Seems the alarmists have dumbass rednecks too.

Global warming is happening. Saying otherwise only serves to prove your own idiocy.

George Burns smoked and lived into his nineties without ever getting cancer, but that single data point does not show that smoking and cancer are not cause and effect. Likewise with most of the buffoonery here, single data points may make you feel better, but they hardly prove anything.

The year 2008 was cooler than 2007, and in fact cooler than any year since 2000. However, it was still hotter than every year prior to 1998 in historical record.

An article with some nice charts for those who prefer pictures can be found at:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/george-f-will-takes-on-science-loses.html

I read this article and changed my mind.

http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/05/five_months_till_armageddona_d.html

Al Gore is a piece of poop.