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[archiebald]

Mike,

Since you are obviously fond of conspiracy theories. Why don't you look into the influence and money the Koch brothers have put into the "anti" global warming groups.

I'm looking forward to hearing of your research.

Very interesting, and not at all surprising. Thanks for spreading the awareness

Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine | Greenpeace

 

[Mantra]

 

[archiebald]

This is hilarious;

UPDATE (9 pm, 7/28): A NY Times op-ed by Richard Muller, BEST’s Founder and Scientific Director, has been published, “The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic.”
Here is the money graf:

CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.
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Yes, yes, I know, the finding itself is “dog bites man.” What makes this “man bites dog” is that Muller has been a skeptic of climate science, and the single biggest funder of this study is the “Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000).” The Kochs are the leading funder of climate disinformation in the world!

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It gets better:

Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.
These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming.
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In short, a Koch-funded study has found that the IPCC “consensus” underestimated both the rate of surface warming and how much could be attributed to human emissions!

 

[Mike]

I edited the post you have in question with a link to countries and their beliefs so you can easily just click your mouse and find the facts you're seaking in regard to Japan being the worlds #1 brain washed nation about global warming

Here it is again so you don't have to search too far The Global Warming Myth Belief By Country

Do you doubt that hurricane Katrina happened? Do you doubt it cost the US taxpayers and insurance companies close to US$100 billion? Or do you think it was all faked? Do you think that tornadoes in New York are normal?

OOPS.....

Tornado Activity Reaches Record Lows in 2012

The year 2012 is breaking all-time records for lack of tornado activity, defying extreme-weather claims by global warming alarmists.Fewer than 300 tornadoes touched down in this year’s peak tornado season, which runs from mid-April through late-July. Approximately 850 tornadoes touch down during the peak season in an average year. Accordingly, three times more tornadoes occur during an average peak-tornado season than occurred in 2012.

This year’s record-low tornado activity contradicts prominent assertions by global warming alarmists.​

OOPS.....

Hurricane Inactivity Defies Alarmists

When Hurricane Isaac made landfall in southern Louisiana, the storm provided a rare break in one of the longest periods of hurricane inactivity in U.S. history. Seeking to deflect attention away from this comforting trend, global warming alarmists attempted a high-profile head fake, making public statements that the decline in recent hurricane activity masked an increase in strong, damaging hurricanes.

“The hurricanes that really matter, that cause damage, are increasing,” John Abraham, a mechanical engineer on the staff of little-known University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, told Discovery News.

Let’s go straight to the data to find out if major hurricanes are indeed increasing.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) provides information on major U.S. hurricanes during the past 100-plus years. According to the NHC, 70 major hurricanes struck the United States in the 100 years between 1911 and 2010. That is an average of seven major hurricane strikes per decade.

According to the NHC data, not a single decade during the past 50 years saw an above-average number of major hurricanes.

During the past five decades, an average of 5.6 major hurricanes struck the United States. During the preceding five decades, an average of 8.4 major hurricanes struck the United States.

“The hurricanes that really matter, that cause damage” are not increasing. Hard, objective data show exactly the opposite. Indeed, during the past four decades, the time period during which global warming alarmists claim human-induced global warming accelerated rapidly and became incontrovertible, the fewest number of major hurricanes struck during any 40-year period since at least the 1800s.
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[archiebald]

I edited the post you have in question with a link to countries and their beliefs so you can easily just click your mouse and find the facts you're seaking in regard to Japan being the worlds #1 brain washed nation about global warming

Here it is again so you don't have to search too far The Global Warming Myth Belief By Country

Thank you. But a couple of points.

Nowhere in that web page does it refer to climate change as a myth.

It indicates that South Koreans, Costa Ricans, Greeks, Argentinians, Ecuadorians, Tajiks and Brazilians all have similar opinions to Japanese.

 

[Mike]

Thank you. But a couple of points.

Nowhere in that web page does it refer to climate change as a myth.

It indicates that South Koreans, Costa Ricans, Greeks, Argentinians, Ecuadorians, Tajiks and Brazilians all have similar opinions to Japanese.

Maybe you all just need to turn the heat down in your homes and drink more water?


Belief in Global Warming Changed by Room Temperature

Sitting in a warm room is apparently all it takes to change someone’s belief in global warming.

In a study done by Jane L. Risen of The University of Chicago and Clayton R. Critcher of The University of California Berkeley, it has been shown that room temperature has a large effect on belief in global warming.

The researchers found that warmth influenced belief in global warming, even indoors, in a cubicle, when the temperature outdoors at the time was much cooler. The researchers also found that thirst impacted forecasts of future drought and desertification.

The research was done by testing the participants in a variety of different settings. The participants in the warm room “constructed more fluent mental representations of hot (vs. cold) outdoor temperatures, and those who were led to construe the same hot outdoor images more fluently believed more in global warming.”

“Together, the results suggest that visceral states can influence one’s beliefs by making matching states of the world easier to simulate and therefore seem more likely.”

This also matches up well with people changing their mind about global warming as the seasons change, and then people changing their minds the other way as the seasons change​

 

[AfterDark]

I just got done watching Irwin Allen's 1953 documentry "The sea around us". The very end was a warning, if the glaciers continue to melt the ocean could rise 100 feet and drown coastal cities! Fifty nine years ago! What's old is new again! That did change for a while back in the 70's when the alarmists were warning us of an approaching ice age! These's a lot of mileage and cash to be gotten out of climate change. Keep on believing you'll be making money for someone.