yea your right on the money. Big oil is probably paying people to lie. think about it if you make billions off of free natural dead bio you would try
to influence and pay any lo life to admit to a lie.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
reply to post by 0ne10
Except most governments are not interested in cutting down pollution, they are primarily(only?) interested in taxing CO2 which is NOT a primary pollutant. What happened to carbon monoxide, sulfer dioxide, dumping raw sewage into waterways, burying nuclear waste into mountains, using depleted uranium for military purposes, etc..?
Face it, it was a scam and they got caught red handed!![]()
Originally posted by Logarock
Originally posted by mc_squared
So this shouldn't matter anyway - because if there really is no "scientific consensus" on global warming, who cares what the council says - Hal's petition is what really matters, right?
So let's go ask those 47,000 or so scientists that had an opportunity to sign it:
Only 0.45% of Physicists sign Denier Petition
Yes that's right - out of 47,000 possible respondents: a whopping 206 of them put their name to this crucial document. And as the link above points out - this amounts to 0.45%, which coincidentally is roughly the same number of people who fall for Nigerian email scams. Weird huh!
Because to be fair - I see in his resignation letter Hal implies that the 200 signatures were just acquired to meet some bare minimum requirement to bring the proposal before council, because it was "not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list". This is kind of an odd thing to complain about considering earlier in the letter he complains about getting reprimanded for already having access to and emailing some portion of that membership list, but whatever - moving on...
Oh yea and all 47,000 were climate experts and into this thing neck deep.
And the APS member list he is complaining that not only did he get reprimanded for using some part of the list that hes denied a total list. Bunch of control freeks want to squelch all dissent. Its certain that his partial list was not given to him by request but were part of some other list with known members.
And he didnt do bad with that list getting what 200 signatures. Wonder how big that list was. He certainly feels that if he had the whole list that he could show large type dissent. Are you certain that all 47,000 got to look at this or just those on the short list?
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by Faiol
But he is...........Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)