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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There is far more money to be made in linking Global warming to human activity then in denying it. The links to big companies are often thrown out there without just cause to devalue what credible scientists are saying. Eliminate those who are making a profit on the man caused/impending doom side of the equation and you would find very little unbiased research has been done.
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Are you serious? There is more
profit being made in a single quarter by big oil than there is being made by all of those entites concerned about global warming. Considering our whole economy is pertroleum based, your statement is grossly incorrect. Need you be reminded that several RW think tanks, with ties directly to big oil, have advertised their willingness to pay for any research that supports the position counter to global warming. Eliminate those who are taking their money from the oil companies and there is little to no research to dispute the theory.
What is lost in this discussion is the fact that one side of the debate has a unified voice and theory as to what is happening. The other side has but one unified point, and that is that global warming is NOT a result of CO2 emmissions. None of the dissenting voices can agree on what is causing global warming, and yes it is universally agreed that global warming IS happening, all they can do is disagree with the CO2 theory and promote their own. They disagree with each other and publicly ridicule each other's theories, but they share one thing in common, and that is they feel the CO2 theory is incorrect. What is interesting is that if someone went to 10 doctors about an illness, and got 7 of them to agree on a diagnosis, and then three dissenting opinions, the dissenting opinions would be dismissed. Especially if those three dissenting opinions were not in agreement with each other, and their data did not support each other's claims. Of course those in denial may cling to the hope that one of these three were right, and they really didn't have a disease that may kill them, but that does not make the diagnosis they select as correct. It just means they are in denial.