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In reply to the discussion: Tea baggers have infiltrated every major progressive site and I have to admit [View all]Socialistlemur
(770 posts)I recently got a copy of the draft IPCC report scheduled for release this year. The IPCC is a political body, therefore the report was ready last year, and they closed it for comments in November. The guy who gave it to me thought it would be a good idea if I read it because of my background so I could in turn give him my opinion.
Anyway, reading the report gave me the idea to research more about the topic. What I found was a lot of distortion on both sides of the issue. And in some cases it was so extreme I started to wonder if "green advocates" may not be paid by the nuclear power industry. The same applied on the other side, I think there's some effort by coal companies to back "science" to confuse people regarding anthropogenic global warming, and in particular the greenhouse effect. I also see a weird behavior: there's a lot of opposition by some actors to one pipeline carrying crude from Canada to the USA Gulf coast. But the competition to that crude is identical crude from Venezuela arriving by tanker. And then there's a movement to stop natural gas production...which benefits coal producers.
I don't want to sound paranoid, but I'm starting to triple check everything I read because I see hidden motives and secret agendas everywhere. And I see a lot of misdirection and even censorship when one tries to focus discussion on a purely technical basis. It's almost as if people had religious mania...or they are getting paid.
Anyway, this applies to just about everything. Again I don't want to sound like I got black helicopters coming after me, but I wouldn't trust anything unless you have checked and double checked, because there are hidden agendas everywhere.