Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/22/2009 7:50:38 PM PST by VR-21
It seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields. Words can’t adequately express my astonishment.
Amid the thousands of files apparently lifted from Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) last week sit two documents on the subject of the unit’s funding. One is a spreadsheet (pdj_grant_since1990.xls) logging the various grants CRU chief P.D. Jones has received since 1990. It lists 55 such endowments from agencies ranging from the U.S. Department of Energy to NATO, worth a total of £13,718,547, or approximately $22.6 million. I guess cooking climate data can be an expensive habit, particularly for an oft-quoted and highly exalted U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief climatologist.
But it’s actually the second document (potential-funding.doc) that tells the more compelling tale. In addition to four government sources of potential CRU funding, it lists an equal number of "energy agencies" they might put the bite on. Three -- the Carbon Trust, the Northern Energy Initiative, and the Energy Saving Trust -- are U.K.-based consultancy and funding specialists promoting "new energy" technologies with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The fourth -- Renewables North West -- is an American company promoting the expansion of solar, wind, and geothermal energy in the Pacific Northwest.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The MSM better jump on this story if they want ANY readers left...
I’ve been having a blast over here:
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2493406
These people are beside themselves trying to discredit that which cannot be discredited, and they are relentlessly digging their own grave.
I read that list. Wondering what the “H” is in it for them?
What is in it for Coca Cola I wonder? Makes no sense to me.
I wonder about it too. It's creepy to be sure.
“The MSM better jump on this story if they want ANY readers left...”
Not a chance in hell! They would rather go broke than deviate from their dogma. Like the democrats in congress voting for the health bill and cap-and-tax knowing that voters are against both - they would rather commit political suicide than lose their once in a lifetime chance (filibuster-proof majorities) to get those two things implemented which will take us a long ways toward their goal of a socialist country.
What makes Coca Cola fizzy? Colas - carbonated drinks in general - are contributors to "global warming", so they claim!
I thought I was on top of it all, but had never heard that one about carbonated beverages causing Global Warming.
SHEESH!
Still though, wondering why they would seek to advance UN legislation over their bubbles. Sounds to me as though they are shooting themselves in the foot.
What am I missing?
Maybe they calculate that they’re pulling CO2 out of the air and putting it in beverages. They can then sell their carbon credits to those nasty energy companies.
It’s a great third-world economic system they’re setting up, where you can bribe the right people to get favor from those in power and then coerce others to funnel money to you using the government-sanctioned cap n trade scam.
Coke wants to be seen as hip and “progessive”. It’s all marketing BS. Remeber these companies are trying to package their products to public school brainwashed kids and adults.
Exactly. Coke will help save those adorably vicious polar bears from the dreaded globull warming.
“It’s all marketing BS.”
Yeah. That makes the most sense to me.
You know, was it not coke that did the ad campaign with the cute cuddly polar bears, just before the whole polar bear debate started? I now wonder if it was a deliberate ploy to get polar bears directly in the publics mind, all cute and cudly just before announcing that they will spontaneously combust in the near future.
Good thinkin’, BUT I recall Coca Cola using the Polar Bears back when I would watch TV, and that was many a year ago. Haven’t watched television for years other than what I might see of whatever my wife is watching in the other room once in awhile.
She likes to read Kathy Reichs books, and watch “Bones”, and she likes “NCIS”, and I guess that’s about it. All our news comes from FR.
Yeah, those Polar Bears go back quite a ways with Coca Cola.
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