NYT's Friedman on ClimateGate: Global Warming Action Necessary, No Matter Risk or Cost

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/12/04/nyts-friedman-climategate-g...

What's $200 billion annually, or roughly $1,761 per family per year, if it means lowering by 10 percent the chance that the world is going to end? It's a pittance to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

Friedman made an appearance on CNN's Dec. 3 "Campbell Brown" to promote the paperback release of his book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded." Brown asked Friedman for his take on the ClimateGate scandal, and he insisted there should be transparency as far as the data is concerned.

"Well, these were hacked e-mails from one of the important climate research centers over in the U.K.," Friedman said. "And, frankly, Campbell, as someone who follows this issue, cares about it, I found some of those e-mails disappointing, frankly in the kind of way in which it seemed that they were trying to keep certain research out, you know, of the discussion, because I think transparency here is really ... is everything. OK. You say this. I say that. Here is my data. Here is your data."

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[wilsonspaulding]

Leave it up to the democrats to find a way to tax the weather.

[budwise1949]

This guy is a idiot.

[tnekkc]

Friedman is always wrong about everything he says, and still gets back into the media.

Somewhere there is a BS filter hooked up backwards.

[1Sweetsexyflava]

So what was the cause for "global" warming millions of years ago? I didn't know they had modern conveniences at the time--were cave men driving cars lmao!

[patioperson]

This is absolutely the stupidist video I've seen on climate. CO2 in the atmosphere for 3000 years, CO2 will always be in the atmosphere and in the oceans so will methane, oxygen, nitrogen, and so on. The way he's bouncing up and down, he might be sitting on a dildo and recently toked up. But he does make Al Gore look good. But who doesn't?

20 years from now, these guys will be touting global cooling. History sure does seen to repeat itself.

[acidgawd999]

@indy1017

"An enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence. Satellite measurements of infrared spectra over the past 40 years observe less energy escaping to space at the wavelengths associated with CO2. Surface measurements find more downward infrared radiation warming the planet's surface. This provides a direct, empirical causal link between CO2 and global warming."

There is no "proof" in science -- that is a property of mathematics.

[Atom299]

Sorry but that guy in the vidio is talking rubbish.

I suggest you have a look at these videos.

How they manipulate the data sets

/watch?v=JJuoYrGeFbY

Here's a test you can do to discover the truth for yourself

Global Warming US Cities Getting Warmer

/watch?v=F_G_-SdAN04

feature=player_embedded

[zaurakdigis]

@Atom299, bull crap, you have not seen all the data. Every scientific discipline acknowledges warming has occured.

Parasites in forests, permafrost melting, glacier melt. The fraud is among the deniers. The Oregon Scientific Institute is a perfect example, you have bought into the Oil and Coal Industry propaganda. They have trillion dollar motives, not the climate scientist.

[indy1017]

Friedman, you're a moron. There's direct scientific proof that smoking can contribute to cancer. There is none in regards to CO2 output and the Earth's temperature. How'd this guy win a Pulitzer?