Hackers just killed global warming
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Gucci - agree completely. On another site where we were discussing this, someone said it's not the information age, it's the "information you want to believe" age, which sounds about right. If you believe that government is the most evil, oppressive force on Earth and that everything you see on TV is a lie, you are going to have that tape running in your head endlessly, facts be damned. The same thing could be leveled at liberals who blame every problem in the world on corporations and big business.
The bad part is that when you have all these half-baked conspiracies out there, it turns scientists into advocates FOR GW as they try to fight back against public ignorance. Then when a counterargument or unexplained aspect pops up the skeptics jump on it, and the other side is forced to defend a POV as ironclad even as they should also be neutrally examining the pros and cons.
The aspect of this that is hard for me to ignore though, is the huge amount of money that oil companies have thrown into creating doubt around this issue. IMO it's a triumph of PR, maybe the greatest one ever, when you have 90% of scientists saying one thing, and 50% of the public not believing it because of their ideological views.
- Science is a business. Every scientist out there has a family and a mortgage. They don't bite hands that feedraf
- They even used the same PR firms as tobacco companies http://www.ucsusa.or…ukit
- raf, that's your opinion, based on nothingukit