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Google Will Stop Supporting Climate Change Science Deniers, Calls Them Liars

posted by n1 on Tuesday September 23 2014, @08:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-not-to-be-evil? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Wednesday September 24 2014, @11:09AM

    by hoochiecoochieman (4158) on Wednesday September 24 2014, @11:09AM (#97575)

    I presented a theory that the deniers have multiple walls of denial. One by one, the walls go down, overthrown by the sheer weight of truth. But after one wall, there's always another.

    First, global warming was a lie spread from multimillionary evil scientists that wanted grant money. Then, it's no more a lie, but it's not being caused by humans. Then it's caused by humans, but it's not a problem, it's beneficial. Then it's not beneficial any more but the markets will fix it.

    The current wall is "the markets can't fix it, but we shouldn't do anything, because that would be pot smoking tree hugger abortionist islamo fascist gay communism and we'd all rather be dead." Could this one be the last wall?

    I guess not. The next wall is that we should pray while the seas rise, hurricanes strike and marine life dies from acidification. Pray. That will fix it.

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