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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said it was a “mistake” to support the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group that has said human-created climate change could be “beneficial” and opposes environmental regulations. Schmidt said groups trying to cast doubt on climate change science are "just literally lying."
Google’s membership in ALEC has been criticized because of the group’s stance on climate change and its opposition to network neutrality rules and municipal broadband. Earlier this month, Google refused to comment after 50 advocacy groups called on the company to end its affiliation with ALEC.
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Google Will Stop Supporting Climate Change Science Deniers, Calls Them Liars
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Entropy on Wednesday September 24 2014, @03:07AM
Reference: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/01/02/global-warming-researchers-rescued-from-arctic-ice [breitbart.com]
Summary: Global warming researchers looking for reduced ice levels get stuck in the ice on week 2 of a 5 week trip. "But it's silly to believe this means we're not seeing global ice melting."
Reference: http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783 [globalresearch.ca]
No global warming in the last 10 years.
Record setting cold in 2007-2008
I've even heard that global cooling is a sign of global warming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_North_American_cold_wave [wikipedia.org] mentions it's one of the theories being put around.. But if warming is a sign of global warming, and cooling is a sign of global warming...how exactly would any possible scientific evidence be a sign of not global warming? Or are we just not doing science anymore?
REF: http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/ [gizmag.com]
REF: http://dmv.ca.gov/about/profile/official.pdf [ca.gov] (how many drivers licenses in california?)
Why am I angry at the global warming bs? Mainly because it's being used as the excuse for all manner of truly idiotic decisions. They are screwing with otherwise reliable diesel engines(that already pollute less than many gas engines) and making them break with urea injection and exhaust-gas-recirculation. California is particularly noteworthy for idiotic restrictions(and ruining every gas can in america) .. Sure this sounds great until you realize 1 cargo ship pollutes as much as 50,000,000 (you read that right) cars. California has rough 26M cars... So it's 1/2 of 1 cargo ship. Why are we screwing with cars again?
These restrictions not only screw with cars, they screw with backup generators...That are run how often exactly? Pretty much never. Go do something useful like clean up emissions from a bunker oil fueled cargo ship if you really care about global pollution. You don't even need some BS about global cooling cauing global warming and whining because guess what! There will actually be another ice age...sometime. And there's nothing we can do about it.(except perhaps try to actually bring about global warming.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:09AM
...assuming you ever studied it.
You need to learn the difference between an integral and a single data point.
Had you paid attention in school, you might have discovered there is a difference between a (rising-in-the-long-term) baseline and a (wildly deviating) delta.
Taking some time to discover how many overlapping data sets there are that verify global warming would also allow you to look less the faith-based fool.
The phrase that pays is "climate proxies".
...and not to go too ad hominem, but you're more likely to be taken seriously if you find a source other than Breitbart.
Surely some outfit with some integrity covered that story.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by Entropy on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:04PM
Actually I did quite well in Calculus. Admittedly my sources were quickly found, but I wanted to have a little foundation for my claims. Let me review your sources really quick...Hmm...Seems you don't have any. Let me guess..you failed English?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by shortscreen on Wednesday September 24 2014, @07:47AM
I would agree that Cali has some bad regulations but the ones you mentioned aren't even related to the issue of greenhouse gases. Urea injection and EGR are meant to reduce smog-forming pollutants (nitrogen oxides). Global warming and smog are two separate problems.