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  • Where is my check from the fossil fuel industry for not believing the warming crap? it would come in handy for my energy bill.

  • Corrupted data means you cannot trust any climate model prediction. A corrupted upward graph should infact be a downward temperature trend.

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  • i acknowledge climate change as an absolute fact, wether or not its caused by man is completely up for debate. but what monbiot is saying is 100% correct, theres no reason a scientist; or group of scientist in this case, should ever want to hide their research from the public. what possibly could have been they're reasoning for doing this? the only conclusion i can find is it did not correlate their other research. if it had, would it not have been readily avalible with all their other findings?

  • Monbiot is sexy.

  • This is a religion, it won't matter what you say against it.

  • Okay, let´s say monbiot is right on this "hide the decline"-thing, but what about the cooling trends. The temperature is still falling globally, so we have still being lied to...

  • What are the climate scientists doing trying to manage the information that reaches the public?

    But more to the point, what are the denialists doing hacking into legitimate, scientific organization's private online conversations? If it were a government performing this kind of intrusive surveillance, then it would be percieved as a terrific encroachment on human rights.

  • monbiot is right

  • @aerobique Sadly he like other communists have indeed been lying in order to raise taxes and ruin peoples lives. The record unemployment in Europe is the result of these stupid and cruel tax rises.

  • @warriorprince1010

    communists? taxes? hello? science? mass extinction? venus?

  • Last time I checked George Monbiot studied Zoology at university - why is he commenting on the climate science.

    Shouldn't we be finding out from climate scientists what is going on?

  • in science you dont decide stuff like that...its ever evolving - there is no point where we say "thats it, we got it, move on " lol

  • @DanOblacksmith

    There are far more serious issues than _resisting_ to get our society to use less oil. Even if climat change is all a hoax or the result of some natural process, the oil fiels will not get bigger over night (exept in official numbers of opec states of course..)

  • you think people that are in the denial industry are not after the fame, money, tenure, building named after them either? if scientists on the climate change side are guilty of all those sins.....hate to break it to you but scientists against it probably are to.

  • gimme one document, one...that would back up your 30 000 claim.

    in fact, no. show me documents that talk about any numbers of scientist, independant- if they get their money from the oil industry would not count - that are " against " global warming...even that statement is wrong - in science you are neither for nor against something, the evidence speaks for you.

  • Wow, you post about a deeply flawed list (Oregon Petition), which I handily debunk. Then you compare me to a child only to follow that with a comment about "puss laden boils on the ass..."

    I'll have to refer people to this when they ask me what projection means.

  • Look who cashes in on the status quo, you moron. Do you watch videos with no sound?

  • Google: evolution climate change nova. Quote from PBS Nova page:

    "Why did leaps in human evolution take place? "First Steps" explores a provocative "big idea" that sharp swings of climate were a key factor."

    The prehuman creatures who could not adapt to climate change died off. This is an interesting issue because the people on the right who don't believe in evolution won't know what to make of this, and the liberals who claim the embrace science will have to ignore proof of evolution.

  • You're right they want to suppress technology that would prevent us from moving away from fossil fuels. As such the corporate interests of the world are investing millions of dollars to convince people that man's influence on climate change is a hoax; notwithstanding the vast amounts of evidence to the contrary. The more people they convince into crying hoax the more powerful they will become.

    Wake up people! Don't be fooled by the fascist agenda.

  • way to come in with an open mind

  • It's funny to see all of the comments these videos by wet-behind-the-ears teenagers who think they know everything.

    The corporations through their orgy of looting and polluting have gravely disrupted the natural ecosystem of the planet affecting the climate of the planet.

    These guys have bought into the fascist propaganda that man influenced climate change is a hoax. These kids are complicit in the advancement of Cap and Fraud policies in the place of real regulation such as a carbon tax.

  • It's the polluting corporations, not the country or the people, that would being paying the tax. Furthermore taxing them retroactively wouldn't really be economically feasible nor constitutionally legal.

    Taxing all future pollution however would greatly benefit the people and the country as it would be a good source of revenue from the government possibly allowing them to lower taxes on workers. Also it would help push policy towards renewable energy sources and away from fossil fuels.

  • Monbiot's take on this should be taken very, very seriously. It goes much further than this interview portraits...because he is NOT defending the e-mails...this interview somewhat distorts his point of view...

  • @truefictions

    Are you familiar with Milton Friedman?

    greyfalcon. net/ milton

  • @truefictions

    What makes you think Ron Paul's position is so different?

    "To the extent property rights are strictly enforced against those who would pollute the land or air of another, the costs of any environmental harm associated with an energy source would be imposed upon the producer of that energy source, and, in so doing, the cheap sources that pollute are not so cheap anymore."

  • What really is burning is the last portions of fossil fuels that will be available to our species. Finis. (techno) Game Over. Compared to assumed prior global warming periods this fossil fuel finitude is more of an immediate threat since rampant use of energy is not only correlated but required for complex civilization.

  • @fossilman2

    Good thing we have our own personal fusion reactor to rely on, that produces orders of magnitude more energy each year, then the total reserves of all other sources of energy combined.

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    greyfalcon. net/ solarbaseload

    With the except of a bunch of rocks kept piping hot by radioactive decay. Which is also orders of magnitude more annual energy than our total reserves.

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    greyfalcon. net/ egs

  • re: PikeSdream

    You do realize that Bellamy is a botanist, right?

  • @PikeSdream

    Fine enough, I'll watch it.

    However just from the title it sounds like it's going to be the usual non-scientific rhetoric.

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  • @PikeSdream

    Kinda painful listening to his rambling. Stopped a few minutes in. (Which is scary since it seems like he goes on for hours in the other segments)

    Mind if I just save us both the hassle and point out the David Bellamy bluntly says he doesn't care about science anymore?

    tinyurl (dot) com/ydytvqn

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  • @PikeSdream

    In Botany.

    I'm pretty sure you wouldn't trust him to perform brain surgery either.

    Since despite the fact that he's a "clever bloke" it's outside of his background.

    Nobody is an expert on everything.

  • @PikeSdream

    I agree.

    The catch being that Monbiot doesn't claim to be an "expert" of the issue. Instead citing peer reviewed physical science sources. Leaving the actual science to the people with relevant credentials.

    Bellamy on the other hand, cites the scientific equivalent of tabloids, and his own personal opinion. Trying to make himself out to be an "expert" when he's not.

  • @PikeSdream

    Wait back up a second.

    Bellamy said:

    "peer-reviewed journals - it's the last thing I would use now."

    Are you saying in full context, that would somehow have a different meaning.

  • @PikeSdream

    Well if Peer Review isn't good enough for you.

    Then what is?

    -

    And how the hell is "Lungs of the planet" a quantifiable matter of science here?

    We got 1/3rd more carbon in the atmosphere now, than in the past 800,000 years.

    greyfalcon. net/ carbon3

    And we know it's fossil carbon, given it's deficiency of C14 isotope.

    greyfalcon. net/ c14

    That shit ain't "natural".

  • @PikeSdream

    Or how about I reinterpret.

    "He's a botanist, he knows about trees! Therefore he's equally qualified as astrophysists on matters of atmospheric chemistry!!"

    No he's fucking not.

    Seriously WTF.

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  • good video

  • @EricIndiana

    No the just proves you're ignorantly trying to connect two strong El Nino events together in a "trend".

    Despite the fact these two punctuated events only lasted for a few months at a time.

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    As for the rest of it, looks like you're using non-scientific argument #28

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  • proof?

  • @onlyMTBlade

    Hate to burst your bubble there but the sun can't explain warming, when it's on a downward trend.

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    And they already figured out the mars thing years ago. The planet wide dust storms causing it practically killed the mars rover.

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  • "its very clear that the sun is the main driver in global temp." True, but entirely irrelevant.

  • @EricIndiana

    Well it's not so much that natural factors are irrelevant.

    It's more to do with the fact that natural factors by themselves don't explain what's going on.

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    tinyurl (dot) com/y947k2y

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  • @EricIndiana

    Would you please quit with the tired strawman arguments.

    greyfalcon. net/ carbon2

    And given your volcanoes argument, now I know where you got your information from.

    Would you care for the short, or the long style debunk?

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  • can you point me to the evidance please

  • It's irrelevant because the sun does what it does while GH gasses do what they do and the only matter of importance is the latter. Temperature charts of the past are irrelevant to the discussion. The chemistry of what is happening is not in dispute, that GH gasses add to the mean temperature is not in dispute. That the sun is the main determinant of mean temperature is not in dispute. Since it is not in dispute, it's irrelevant.

  • @bauxi07 so man made pollutants are not any part of the problem and we should go on as business as usual? its all a myth all that coal and oil that gets burned all that methane is no problem at all? isn't polluting? and we are entering a cooling phase that somehow also is melting the polar and sub-polar ice caps? the fact that you called it "global warming" is a clue unless you did not get the memo its been re branded "Global Climate change" which is a more accurate descriptor

  • A likely psychotic nutcase screaming nonsence babble at the top of his lungs and being rightfully removed!

  • Wow. You just cited every piece of climate change denialist bullshit and still came in under the character limit.

    I'm impressed.

  • The "solution" is not to needlessly waste power. Which oddly enough is what wealthy and influential power and oil companies don't want, hence the fabricated crap that they paid for and you repeat.

  • This didn't begin, nor will it end, with al gore. I live in europe, and we've been aware of this problem since long before his little "revelation".

  • Incidentally, McIntrye is a statistician. Not a scientist.

    And whenever he gets involved in science issues, he has this weird habit of making up his own personal version of physics.

  • Thank you for showing this interview

  • I think it would be better if The REal News shied away from experts like Ball with a vested interest in what people believe. Ball's organizations are on the payroll of oil and gas companies. Don't we want reputable sources?

  • Tim Ball isn't a climate scientist. He's a geologist.

  • @loai050 No, Tim Ball does not have a PhD in climatology from the University of London in 1983 (Climatology wasn't even offered by the University of London in 1983) He got one in Geography, that year. Which is something I guess. But not in Climatology. tinyurl (dot) com/yug5zc And if you're looking as wikipedia. First off, the "source" for saying he does have a PhD in climatology is a fossil industry frontgroup called NRSP. tinyurl (dot) com/yzm7sc4 Second off, the "source" link is dead.
  • Realnews is not unbiased. THey call it real news because they think they're right. I've read Monbiot's book, and I trust no one's analysis of the climate change data than his.

  • *more than his

  • as we can see- most so called "thruthers" are not interested in real truth. But thats not new.

    thank you real news

  • Everyone wants the news say what they what, regardless of what's true or fabricated. So in actuality, most people have to be swayed towards the truth as much as they need to be swayed towards a lie.

    So neutral skepticism is the best choice here, don't believe in anything unless it fits with your understanding of things. It's hard, though, because you constantly have to keep up to date on material. That's way most people believe things at face value, are gullible.