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Originally posted by Sir Goulum:
How much money has been used trying to research/stop it? That money just doesn't disappear.
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Researching it would require a conspiracy with the guys from the other side to never come to a conclusion, otherwise that money would come to an end fast.
Stopping it? I suppose you mean renewable energy, but fact is that the renewable energy industry does not yet have the power or money to lobby governments or scientists into working with them. They do not have any major cartels or organizations like OPEC, either. Conventional industry that would suffer from global warming being proven to be worsened by human action would have both the most to lose, and the money to organized a counter-action.
The money also has to come from somewhere, and the people who would gain, as little as it would be, just do not have that money, for the most part.
A pro-warming(That is, as in pro- that the idea is real) conspiracy is just hugely implausible. They have little to lose since we're hitting the oil peak soon where they'll start earning their money anyway, and what they'll gain will come to them with patience at any rate.
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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
I don't understand this post. I thought it was clear that Gore (American) was trying to lead our country's opinion towards it being soley our fault...and Bush has signed on as believing that as well, quoting the documentary. It appears that you are saying that the US govt. is of the attitude that it is not our fault, yet I see the US as leading the idea that it is. Therefore, your post makes no sense to me.
And you should not use the word "state", because Denmark does not hate soley North Carolina, do they?
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When I say "your state" I am referring to your entire country, I am afraid. We don't dislike any of your states or your entire country, we're willing to treat most of you like any other human being, we just despise your government for being incompetent and screwing it up for everyone.
Few people here also believe that your government is truly siding with pro-warming advocates in any way, really, aside from a few local measures(Like Schwarzenegger(It was him, right?)'s lightbulb thing.), there hasn't been anything largescale. You're still outside of the Kyoto Treaty, for example.
Considering that many of your senior officials are associated with things like the oil industry and others which would suffer from warming being accepted as human-exacerbated, they are also basically seen as pawns of the industry who line their own pockets while offering empty words to the pro-warming side in an attempt to mollify them.