Scientific Fraud

**Nameless** · 11-27-2015 01:22 PM

When even the scientists from Exxon knew it would affect climate by 1978

Exxon's climate lie: 'No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad' | Bill McKibben | Environment | The Guardian

Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years | Environment | The Guardian

And 97% of the scientific papers about climate change agree that..well, it's happening.

Survey finds 97% climate science papers agree warming is man-made | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian

Just sayin.

**TitoFan** · 11-28-2015 01:19 AM

The funny thing about this climate change tug-of-war between both sides is how people are failing to grasp what’s really important here. Leave it to human beings to make a circus revolving around whether man is contributing or not to the couple degrees difference in average Earth temperatures, or even more comical, whether this average temperature rise actually exists, or whether it’s just another fabrication by naysayers and doomsdayers.

What’s at stake here? Whether or not we continue pursuing more efficient energy usage, the use of renewable energy, better managing of our natural resources, including forests and other critical aspects of our ecology? As well as preserving exhaustible resources such as petroleum, which we know is not an infinite supply? Are these not worthwhile pursuits anyway? What the hell is all the back and forth about, other than to prove once again that if man is capable of anything, it’s to disagree over just about everything. It’s the proverbial glass half-full or half-empty conundrum all over again. Human beings will argue about everything… and then form coalitions, web sites, buy support from like-minded, articulate, educated fellow human beings… and proceed to ridicule those who dare oppose. It doesn’t even have to be important.

It becomes less about how can we can continually improve, and more about who yells the loudest, or is better at arguing than the other. We can’t seem to get out our own way. One can almost imagine human beings living in a great big, cosmic ant farm… being watched by superior beings eating popcorn and having a good laugh at our follies. Between the hysterical people on both sides of the argument, the “ostrich-head-in-the-sand” types, and those who belong to a certain group because they want to “fit in”, just like a fraternity or sorority…. I imagine it would be pretty entertaining.