Lady Nimue
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The entire climate change debate has political undertones and it usually splits down the middle between liberals and conservatives.
There will be people who agree with Charles and there will be just as many who disagree with him.
This is a topic I have been involved in for some years, since I was in college. The split is a bit more complicated than that imo. It has to do with education, science and media bias in certain quarters (Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for). It has to do with how one approaches the science, and whether the disinformation campaign set in motion in the 1990's by the oil companies took hold for one, causing one to doubt the science and the scientists.
Is there a thread on climate change on this site? Because of some whistle blowers, we have the below information.
How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research
By KATIE JENNINGS, DINO GRANDONI AND SUSANNE RUST - OCT. 23, 2015
LINK: http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/
TEXT: "Throughout much of the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. It sponsored workshops, funded academic research and conducted its own high-tech experiments exploring the science behind global warming. But by 1990, the company, in public, took a different posture. While still funding select research, it poured millions into a campaign that questioned climate change. Over the next 15 years, it took out prominent ads in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, contending climate change science was murky and uncertain. And it argued regulations aimed at curbing global warming were ill-considered and premature.
"How did one of the world’s largest oil companies, a leader in climate research, become one of its biggest public skeptics? The answer, gleaned from a trove of archived company documents and the recollections of former employees, is that Exxon, now known as Exxon Mobil, feared a growing public consensus would lead to financially burdensome policies."
"How did one of the world’s largest oil companies, a leader in climate research, become one of its biggest public skeptics? The answer, gleaned from a trove of archived company documents and the recollections of former employees, is that Exxon, now known as Exxon Mobil, feared a growing public consensus would lead to financially burdensome policies."