A major study, funded by the oil industry and the Koch brothers, determines that...GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL?

A major study, funded by the oil industry and the Koch brothers, determines that...GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL?! "When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups.

We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections. Global warming is real.

"online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702... Asked by Goodbye! 2 months ago Similar questions: major study funded oil industry Koch brothers determines GLOBAL WARMING REAL Politics & Law > Politics.

Similar questions: major study funded oil industry Koch brothers determines GLOBAL WARMING REAL.

Yeah, even when they buy the scientists, if they have any integrity, the truth comes out.

You sure don't see this story getting much coverage, so I expect we'll keep hearing the climate change deniers froth and foam on... Goodbye! 2 months ago .

Oct 26, 2011Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics' concernsFrom the Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/20/global-warming-study-climate-scepticsThe world is getting warmer, countering the doubts of climate change sceptics about the validity of some of the scientific evidence, according to the most comprehensive independent review of historical temperature records to date. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, found several key issues that sceptics claim can skew global warming figures had no meaningful effect. The Berkeley Earth project compiled more than a billion temperature records dating back to the 1800s from 15 sources around the world and found that the average global land temperature has risen by around 1C since the mid-1950s.

This figure agrees with the estimate arrived at by major groups that maintain official records on the world's climate, including Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), and the Met Office's Hadley Centre, with the University of East Anglia, in the UK. "My hope is that this will win over those people who are properly sceptical," Richard Muller, a physicist and head of the project, said. "Some people lump the properly sceptical in with the deniers and that makes it easy to dismiss them, because the deniers pay no attention to science.

But there have been people out there who have raised legitimate issues. "Muller sought to cool the debate over climate change by creating the largest open database of temperature records, with the aim of producing a transparent and independent assessment of global warming. http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/47585 uk/environment/2011/oct/20/global-warming-study-climate-sceptics.

A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate databy Brad Plumer at 04:18 PM ET, 10/20/2011 Climate skeptics were hoping this study would debunk data proving the existence of the climate crisis -- instead it reaffirmed the science:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/a-skeptical-physicist-ends-up-confirming-climate-data/2011/10/20/gIQA6viC1L_blog.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/koch-brother-funded-study_b_1032439.html html.

Thanks for the additional info, Max! Goodbye! 2 months ago .

Looks like Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch, got some flack for the article or something because it was pulled.

Yeah, I wondered about that. I guess they forgot to get Rupert's permission before printing anything true. Shame on them!

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Okay, that was my paranoia getting the better of me. Here's a fresh link:online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702... Goodbye! 2 months ago html.

The Koch brothers fueled the conservative Tea Party movement that vigorously opposes Barack Obama, the US president. They fund efforts to derail action on global warming, and support politicians who object to raising taxes on corporations or the wealthy to help fix America’s fiscal problems. According to New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, who wrote a groundbreaking exposé of the Kochs in 2010, they have built a top to bottom operation to shape public policy that has been "incredibly effective.

They are so rich that their pockets are almost bottomless, and they can keep pouring money into this whole process". Koch industries, the second largest privately-held company in the US, is an oil refining, chemical, paper products and financial services company with revenues of a $100bn a year. Virtually every American household has some Koch product - from paper towels and lumber, to Stainmaster carpet and Lycra in sports clothes, to gasoline for cars.

The Koch’s political philosophy of rolling back environmental and financial regulations is also beneficial to their business interests. The Kochs rarely talk to the press, and conduct their affairs behind closed doors. But at a secret meeting of conservative activists and funders the Kochs held in Vail, Colorado this past summer, someone made undercover recordings.

One caught Charles Koch urging participants to dig deep into their pockets to defeat Obama. "This is the mother of all wars we've got in the next 18 months," he says, "for the life or death of this country. " He called out the names of 31 people at the Vail meeting who each contributed more than $1m over the past 12 months.In the 2010 congressional elections, the Kochs and their partners spent at least $40m, helping to swing the balance of power in the US House of Representatives towards right-wing Tea Party Republicans.

It has been reported that the Kochs are planning to raise and spend more than $200m to defeat Obama in 2012. But the brothers could easily kick in more without anyone knowing due to loopholes in US law. The Kochs founded and provide millions to Americans for Prosperity, a political organisation that builds grassroots support for conservative causes and candidates.

Americans for Prosperity, which has 33 state chapters and claims to have about two million members, has close ties to Tea Party groups and played a key role in opposing Obama's health care initiative. This year, Americans for Prosperity spent at least half a million dollars supporting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's efforts to cut social spending and roll back collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. The legislation passed by Walker makes it more difficult for unions, which are major backers of Democratic candidates, to secure funds for political purposes.

Americans for Prosperity is also very active in a battle against unions in Ohio, another important 2012 presidential state. Its president, Tim Phillips, says that the organisation is winning in Wisconsin and around the country "because on the policies of economic freedom, we're right". He refused to tell People & Power reporter Bob Abeshouse how much the organisation is spending to combat the unions.

The Kochs have also poured millions into think tanks and academia to influence the battle over ideas. According to Kert Davies, the director of research for Greenpeace in the US, the Kochs have spent more than $50m since 1998 on "various front groups and think tanks who ... oppose the consensus view that climate change is real, urgent and we have to do something about it". As operators of oil pipelines and refineries, the Kochs have opposed all efforts to encourage alternative sources of energy by imposing a tax on fossil fuels.

Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute, often appears in the media to contest global warming science. CATO was founded by Charles Koch, and the Kochs and their foundations have contributed about $14m to CATO. Since 2009, there has been a sharp drop in the percentage of Americans who see global warming as a serious threat according to Gallup polls.

Davies argues that the change can be attributed in large measure to the efforts of scientists like Michaels and others who are funded by the fossil fuel industry. The Kochs have also promoted their free market ideology and business interests through aggressive lobbying in Washington DC, and financial support of political candidates. Greenpeace has tracked more than $50m that Koch Industries has spent on lobbyists since 2006, when Cap and Trade and other legislation to combat global warming was being considered.

The Kochs have been the largest political spender since 2000 in the energy sector, exceeding Exxon, Chevron, and other major players. The Kochs contributed to 62 of the 87 new members of the US House of Representatives in 2010. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the Kochs supported have taken the lead in opposing US Environmental Protection Agency efforts to reduce global warming emissions.

Other members backed by the Kochs belong to the right-wing Tea Party bloc that took the US to the brink of default in July by refusing to consider a budget deal that would include tax increases. In 2012, many believe that President Obama can raise a billion dollars for the presidential race, and break all fundraising records. But as Lee Fang of the Center for American Progress tells reporter Bob Abeshouse, in the end it may not matter "because the Koch brothers alone increased their wealth by $11bn in the last two years".

ALEC is another one to keep an eye on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislati... Goodbye! 2 months ago org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council.

Jon Stewart made fun of the Koch brothers on this very subject last night - go watch the rerun. It was pretty good.

I have it on my DVR ~ I'll have to check it out! Goodbye! 2 months ago .

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Oops! Koch brothers accidentally fund study that proves global warming. Comments?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.