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Last week the environmental lobbying group the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a new report entitled
"A Climate of Corporate Control: How Corporations Have Influenced the U.S. Dialogue on Climate Science and Policy" [PDF]. Among other things, the report claims to trace corporate donations in 2008 and 2009 to think tanks and politicians as a way to uncover the true corporate attitudes and intentions toward climate change science and policy. According to the UCS, its analysis reveals that some corporations are climate-change science hypocrites, claiming to support the climate-change “consensus” in some venues but not in others. This climate hypocrisy allegedly produces confusion among both the public and policymakers, resulting in the defeat or delay of urgent policies needed to address climate change.
Now this one is funny!!! A Union you can count on.... Kenji sniffs out stupid claims by the Union of Concerned Scientists
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The one the issued in October of 2006. It isn't right-wing denialist drivel so it's really no surprise you hadn't heard this, even though it's seven years old. Odd how well versed you are on their 40-year old back issues, though. And again, I posted a link to what the scientists of the day were really saying. I'll post it again for you if you like, I understand your reluctance to go looking for information that contradicts right-wing dogma.
Blog. Not written by a scientist. Not subject to any sort of peer-review or fact-checking. About as legitimate a source of scientific information as a fortune cookie. I know you guys know this, because I've explained it in endless denialist threads. It's clear you choose your sources based not on scientific credibility but on how closely they parrot right-wing claims. Next time you insult my intelligence this way I'll just laugh.
Also, regardless of what you think of the UCS, it doesn't change the findings of the six investigations cited.
Did you not say that science was predicting warming back in 1895? Why are you showing me media predictions?
And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age. As the Times put it on Feb. 24, 1895, “Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.”
Those concerns lasted well into the late 1920s. But when the earth’s surface warmed less than half a degree, newspapers and magazines responded with stories about the new threat. Once again the Times was out in front, cautioning “the earth is steadily growing warmer.”
By 1954, Fortune magazine was warming to another cooling trend and ran an article titled “Climate – the Heat May Be Off.”
The New York Times ran warming stories into the late 1950s, but in 1975, the paper reported: “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable.”
News media is NOT science.
ok, first you obviously missed my mea culpa when i stated that i was WRONG on the 1895 times report. second, i was showing what the MEDIA was saying back then, and THEY were reporting what the scientists said. apparently you missed that also. i never claimed to be saying what the scientists said then. try a little reading comprehension for once.
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Originally Posted by Fleet
Even an amateur astronomer knows that Jupiter and the other planets mentioned have satellites, not "moons." The moon is the name of the Earth's (natural) satellite.
a natural body that orbits a planetary body is considered a moon. mars has two moons, bot hof which are most likely captured asteroids. pluto has three moons, charon is the largest and nearly the size of pluto, hydra and nix are much smaller, they are also captured asteroids. jupiter and saturn each have 62 moons. in fact the ONLY planets in out solar system that do not have moons are mercury and venus.
On the other hand, my Google-fu should just leave you flabbergasted. Here are the real covers from Oct 1977. TIME Magazine - Search Results
the cover he is linking to is supposedly from april 6th 1977, however i didnt find that cover, so i also ask the question, why did he link to a fake cover?
Ha, you're right. October was the month Newseek issued their retraction. Got my eyes crossed for a second there.
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