Nobel Prize-winning scientist says Obama is "dead wrong" on global warming.

The only ones who disagree are paid by conservative think tanks.

Shame on you all for replying to this thread. If a guy comes on here and posts something from Fox News, it should be a dead thread, end of story. Why feed the troll?

These threads are great. It is always such fun to watch Americans shoot their mouths off on anthropogenic climate change. A country where something like 80% of the population reject the theory of evolution, and yet they are climate change experts. It is pure gold so it is.

Hey LRC conservatives!!

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding

Here's an article with a rather insightful email from a long-time climate change denialist who worked for Exxon and Mobil for 3 decades, and headed a major coalition denying climate change.

His email indicates that Exxon knew about climate change due to carbon emissions in 1981, but that they funded climate change denialists for the next 27 years anyway.

Words from a conservative engineering insider, hot off the libtard press

Brush your teeth, see a dentist and shut up.

So, a non-Nobel-winning engineer says climate change is real and you believe him. But a Nobel-winning scientist says it's not real and you don't believe him. LOL OF THE DAY!

The point of that article is, a company that forked out $30 million in anti-global warming propaganda made decisions based on it's own global warming forecasts as long ago as 1981. It has now publicly changed it's stance to acknowledge that humans are contributing to global warming.

The subject of the thread implied that the Nobel prize winning scientist in question had changed his position on global warning, when he has in fact been saying the same thing for years.

Hey Global warming apologists:

Right back at you- I always wondered how alarmists can believe that scientists who accepted tens of thousands of dollars from oil companies decades ago are forever tainted by the sin of bias, but climate scientists who take tens of millions of dollars from government agencies looking to expand their powers are the height of unbiased inquiry.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/07/on-global-warming-follow-the-money.php

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414359/global-warming-follow-money-henry-payne

Michael Mann.” Mann is the controversial director of Pennsylvania State’s Earth System Science Center. He was at the center of the 2009 Climategate scandal, in which e-mails were uncovered from climatologists discussing how to skew scientific evidence and blackball experts who don’t agree with them. Mann is typical of pro-warming scientists who have taken millions from government agencies. The federal government — which will gain unprecedented regulatory power if climate legislation is passe.

Energy companies today invest in solar, biomass, and landfill facilities in addition to carbon fuels. Companies such as Duke Energy, Exelon Corporation, NRG Energy, and Shell.

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So, a non-Nobel-winning engineer says climate change is real and you believe him. But a Nobel-winning scientist says it's not real and you don't believe him. LOL OF THE DAY!

Maybe it's just me, but a company with a ~$400 billion annual revenue stream more than a little dependent on climate change not being real recognizing that it is real is kind of compelling. That said, Exxon Mobil has publicly accepted global warming essentially in alignment with the IPCC assessments since about 2009, so the only revelation here is some of the prior details.

Ivar Giaever win NOBEL PRIZE in 1973.

Obama win NOBEL PRIZE in 2009.

Obamas NOBEL PRIZE is 36 years MORE RECENT.

Obama > Giaever.

I'm a research scientist in natural resources at a large public University in the U.S. (not a climate scientist, of course). I work with many folks that do research on clean air/water issues, and I know that they automatically assume that everyone in my building believes in man-made global warming. If they found out someone didn't believe, I suspect they would think they were f'd up. Just a guess, however. (This may be apropos of nothing.) Carry on.

Obama awarded a Nobel Prize is laughable. Puhleaseeee. Stick to your racing calculator.

That's really funny. No really, it is.

1) Why would you think that the anti-warming scientists are only getting (according to you) "tens of thousands of dollars"? Because Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Coal, Big Electric... can't afford more than this? Or because nobody has uncovered anything significant for their side worth funding? Gee, I wonder...

2) "Energy companies invest in solar, biomass..." Honest question - can you type that and keep a straight face? Why don't you tell us the percentage of their revenues that are going toward such investments? Or does your calculator not have sufficient digits for this?

Anyway, thanks for the laughs.

For those who would genuinely like to inform themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ6Z04VJDco

Note: no computer models, nothing from the IPCC.

This opens like a letter to Penthouse. Just sayin.

asddfsadasf wrote:

I'm a research scientist in natural resources at a large public University in the U.S. (not a climate scientist, of course). I work with many folks that do research on clean air/water issues, and I know that they automatically assume that everyone in my building believes in man-made global warming. If they found out someone didn't believe, I suspect they would think they were f'd up. Just a guess, however. (This may be apropos of nothing.) Carry on.