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Hawke[_3_]

On 2/19/2010 5:38 PM, wrote:
On Feb 20, 12:20 am, wrote:

. And as long as energy producers have a
financial reason to make global warming seem false I'll be skeptical
about their arguments.

Hawke

Just do not forget that there are financial reasons to be is support
of global warming too. You do not get grant money to study why
everything is good. And all the alternate energy folks have an
incentive to have global warming be a big problem that their alternate
energy production can solve if the government will just create some
tax right offs.

The energy producers do not have as big an incentive. Oil is going to
be valuable as a feedstock for petrochemicals for a long long time.

Do get a copy of Super Freakenomics from the library. It is fun
reading.

Dan

I know the book you are talking about. I saw the author on Book TV
talking about the book. It sounded interesting but I have not had the
time to read it. I'm working on the Ruin of the Roman Empire at the
moment so I don't know when I'll get the chance to take a look at it.

On other thing about the climate scientists. It's true that they may
have financial interests now in getting grants but for a long time those
scientists were just gathering data on the environment and no one had
even heard of global warming. They just collected random data and when
years went by and it got hotter every year only then did they start
talking about warming on a global scale. If it's a proven fact that man
is causing global warming by burning fossil fuels that will mean a
global switch away from those fuels. That will damage or destroy the
fossil fuel industry. Companies would do a lot to prevent that, right?

Hawke