The Truth About Global Warming

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Okay, so we’re just here with strong opinions or, through the links at the right,ย with evidence-based science. If you want โ€œtruth,โ€ you have to go to people with a religious conviction โ€“ or, apparently, to people with really big funding from the energyย industry.

Can we suggest Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling, whose latest Cato Institute – sponsored book is calledย Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warmingย (which, we have to admit, is a terrificย title).

The latter link will take you to a wonderful little review on the Cato Institute website in which Michaels and Balling share their sense of certainty that the effects of unprecedented global climate change will be modest and either benign or positive. (Positive for ExxonMobil,ย surely.)

The most Orwellian part of their twisted argument isย this:

The authors find that government funding of research has corrupted the scientific process as scientists compete for funding in a politically charged environment. Total federal spending on global climate change research has ballooned from a few million dollars to $2.1 billion annually in the last 15ย years.โ€

So, we’re to believe that government funding, which is peer-reviewed and apportioned on merit, is suspect โ€“ is indeed โ€œpoliticallyย charged.โ€

Michaels and Balling clearly preferย privateย funding from conscientious objectors like ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, funding thatย isย unstained by any public or political process and unfetteredย by the demands that their science stand up to professionalย scrutiny.

The truth, as Oscar Wilde once said, โ€œis rarely pure and neverย simple.โ€

If someone tells you otherwise, beย suspicious.

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