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In reply to the discussion: Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’ (...and the cause is human.) [View all]Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)58. I would wager they already knew human magnified global warming was for real but up until
this point they put their money on denying the science for personal financial gain and political power plays.
I believe the Kochs finally came to the realization that global warming climate change is making itself known in such increasingly dramatic ways, that trying to deny it costs far more than it pays.
The Kochs commissioned this study to be used as their fig leaf for cover and to allow themselves in finally coming out and admitting publicly, what they already knew was true privately.
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kpete
Jul 2012
OP
Yeah, no shit. He better not go on any long walks, or he might suicide himself. No small planes
Nay
Jul 2012
#55
I would wager they already knew human magnified global warming was for real but up until
Uncle Joe
Jul 2012
#58
They didn't expect this result when they commissioned the study some years ago. n/t
cheapdate
Jul 2012
#92
I remember going to the very first "Earth Day" celebration in 1970 -when we still believed change
cyberpj
Jul 2012
#82
It's not just the sea rise, it's the destruction of farmland and water supplies
NickB79
Jul 2012
#38
Do you really think the damage at +8C would be confined to India and South China?
GliderGuider
Jul 2012
#89
"We have to do everything possible to slow climate change down. It is accelerating."
CrispyQ
Jul 2012
#52
If the Kochs have half the business acumen attributed to them they will be moving into
xtraxritical
Jul 2012
#18
It's probably simpler than that: they know they will die soon, and they don't care
hatrack
Jul 2012
#37
Ick! I just dropped over to the poptech site. Denialists of the first order.
GliderGuider
Jul 2012
#80
Too often people try to pass off ideologically driven bullshit as "science". It isn't.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#77
Either Kochs figured out a way of making a shitpot of money, or we're completely fucked.
Kennah
Jul 2012
#40
Muller's break with orthodox climate science is mainly that he was disturbed by "climategate"
caraher
Jul 2012
#56