Posted on 02/02/2007 8:45:35 AM PST by libertarianPA
LONDON (AFP) - A right-wing American think tank is offering 10,000 dollars (7,700 euros) to scientists and economists to dispute a climate change report set to be released by the UN's top scientific panel, media reported.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which receives funding from oil giant ExxonMobil according to the Guardian, sent letters to scientists in the United States, Britain and elsewhere offering the payments in exchange for articles emphasising the shortcoming of the UN's report.
AEI also reportedly offered additional payments, and to reimburse travel expenses.
The report, due to be released Friday in Paris by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), is likely to give a bleak assessment of the damage to the future of the environment.
It is the culmination of four days of debate between more then 500 scientists at a closed-door meeting in Paris, who have been poring over the first review of the scientific evidence for global warming in six years.
AEI's letters characterize the IPCC report as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and request articles that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs," The Guardian said.
Kenneth Green, the AEI visiting scholar who sent the letters, confirmed to The Guardian that the thinktank had approached scientists and analysts to pen essays that would be compiled into an independent review of the IPCC's report.
"Right now, the whole debate is polarized," Green was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"One group says that anyone with any doubts whatsoever are deniers and the other group is saying that anyone who wants to take action is alarmist. We don't think that approach has a lot of utility for intelligent policy."
It's pretty stupid for EXXON to not distance themselves more from the study. Now the study will have absolutely no impact whatsoever.
If we only accept science which is unfunded, then only those scientists doing science as a religious exercise will be issuing reports and doing studies.
And how many zillions of dollars are given to the pro-global warming gloom & doom crowd each year for their phony projections?
Yep, normally I would cry foul over the funding, but then global warming scientists are funded to push global warming all the time. So I guess it balances out.
The cause of global awarming is that bright thingy thing in the sky during the daytime.
Yes it does. I personally appreciate Exxon doing this for a free people.
The global warming propaganda is designed to scare people into handing businesses and private properties over to the governments. That's socialism/communism.
Take a look at which groups are pushing this global warming propaganda. The socialists and communists are, of course.
They should have offered $1 million each.
Too bad the euro elitists didn't distance themselves from their IPCC report. Now they are going to lose their impact, except for the usual leftists and MSM.
If everyone pulishes the basis for their conclusions, then all can see the data and evaluate its appropriateness. I never hear global waarming people speak of the nexis between human activity and global warming. They only site examples that they aassume are from human intervension.
My question is: Why do they believe that all natural processes became static, and that the Earth is no longer affected by the sun, variations in the orbit of the Earth, volcanos and the like?
Do they have evidence that none of these processes vary in any meaningful way any longer?
Today the MSM carries an item that says it is 90% certain humans are responsible for Global Warming. It should read 100%. Humans might be responsible for 25% of global warming, which is entirely different.
All that really has to happen is for a group of concerned scientists to get together and have a press conference showing CO2 levels and climate records for the last 500K years. I saw the chart this morning. Both have fluctuated in cycles well before there were carbon emissions from manmade sources.
Haven't you heard? 500 years ago it was campfires in the castles to roast old goat...
Because the real goal is a government take over of private industry. It's socialism. Get it? Share the wealth!
It isn't scientific. That's just the cover page. This is political propaganda.
It's pretty stupid for EXXON to not distance themselves more from the study. Now the study will have absolutely no impact whatsoever.
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No impact in the media perhaps, but facts are facts. Private money is no dirtier than public money when used for research. As the worlds largest supplier of fossil fuel, Exxon has a responsibility to vigorously defend itself against false claims about its product. The truth will eventually prevail, but it won't be because government said so, it will be because the actual science "proves" it is so.
Then who paid for all those scientists to go to Paris to work on this. They could have just as easily have met in say...Cleveland. Did they fly on their own nickels?
Someone stop the turnip truck, I want to get back on.
Are there no official scientific commissions or panels apopointed by the administration that quetion the existing scientific basis for this?
Or has the administration chalked this up to a "loss" thereby kicking it down the road for the next administration, like he is for illegal immigration and the like?
Let's do what the Dems always want...a blue ribbon commission of scientists from all over the world to debate the science. No politicians allowed...
I don't think so.
Late last night I was watching the weather chanel. Some woman named Heidi with a Phd. was on talking about global warming as a fact. Finally, I just turned back to local for the weather. We can't do anything about global warming if it is a fact. All of the world wants us to quit driving and that won't happen if we have to support the world and the useless thugs at the UN.
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