General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)AmBlue
(3,111 posts)Is there a link for this with a share button? This one deserves to be on FB asap.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)I got it off FB ... lol ... maybe just copy and paste this one and let FB do it's magic from there
AmBlue
(3,111 posts)leftstreet
(36,108 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The number of state and federal legislators in the US would be at parity if not exceeding the number of international scientists actually doing research on climate change.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Because you don't have to buy them all...just enough to give you the vote...and many of them are already in the back pocket of the industry because they owe their election to them in the first place.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But I am stealing that.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)He banked his credibility and did SO much shameless whoring to get the "hoax" meme going full-throttle that we're still dealing with it today...
It was especially hurtful during the first Bush term when there was so much proud, willful ignorance and bible-thumping anti-science sentiment coming out of the closet...To see a man of science and renown author publicly pimping denier conspiracy theories was a dream come true for them...
I don't know if Crichton was having financial problems at the time, or just wanted one more big payday for his family while he was still living...All I'll say is I hope whatever price tag he put on his soul was worth it...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)It made no sense.
Edim
(300 posts)who did not sell out.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and sadly that is what a lot of people will remember him for...
Edim
(300 posts)on the climate change issue.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Was there some posthumous repentance that I may have missed?
Edim
(300 posts)on the AGW bandwagon.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)to begin with, so he had nothing to "sell," nor to change from.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)When a supposed man of science cashes six-figure checks from industry lobbyists for opinions and speeches that fly in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, it's a sellout
When a supposed man of science politicizes a scientific issue while at the same time brazenly accusing the other side of doing the same thing (extra credit for regularly comparing climate scientists to Nazi eugenicists), it's a sellout
It doesn't matter if Crichton honestly thought climate change was unproven/fake/fraudulent in, say 1980 or even 1990...But by 2000 his views were just a notch below flat-Earthism...Of course I contend he never *really* believed in the Big Oil interpretation of "science", he just continued to go along with it because it was very lucrative to do so -- Which makes him a, you know, something-something or other....
malaise
(269,026 posts)Rec
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)They know there's good mone publishing reports in support of human caused global warming. That is their motive. Money.
The oil giants just want to make sure all sides are heard!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)The massive secret cabal of environmentalists with armies and unlimited funds suppressing poor mom-and-pop ExxonMobil and it's cohorts.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)and, yes, they think that Red-Greens control
* the banks
* the media
* the churches
* the politicians
* the schools
* the scientists
they're just Birchers
liberalla
(9,249 posts)K&R
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)And exactly the way I have always understood the climate change deniers.
Care if I send it to my pal?