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Orrex

(67,123 posts) Thu Sep 26, 2013, 01:12 PM Sep 2013

Hmm. Coworker just dropped a bombshell re: global warming [View all]

"Did you hear that the committee in charge of global warming research just came out and admitted that it's not really happening?"

He wasn't talking to me, and I didn't want to get into a big thing about it here in the customer service department, but he was speaking with that self-assured certainty of the avid talk-radio listener.

So I guess that's it. All of those dead polar bears and vanished ice caps and fucked up jet streams must be lying.

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Hmm. Coworker just dropped a bombshell re: global warming [View all] Orrex Sep 2013 OP

He needs to watch "Chasing Ice." CrispyQ Sep 2013 #1

He started as a climate skeptic hootinholler Sep 2013 #20

Yes, I was so surprised, at the first of the movie, when he stated CrispyQ Sep 2013 #26

Buttonhole him later and ask him about his source Warpy Sep 2013 #2

I think that "committee" is the Heritage Foundation Skittles Sep 2013 #3

That would be the itty-bitty-shit-fitty committee Orrex Sep 2013 #5

I think a house committee chaired by a rethug said that ThomThom Sep 2013 #30

Ha! Ask what this "committee" was called... richmwill Sep 2013 #4

I'd ask him if he had heard that ignorance was eradicated. n/t Wilms Sep 2013 #6

"Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists" Jim__ Sep 2013 #7

It might be the council the new conservative Australian PM abolished starroute Sep 2013 #8

That might be it, in fact Orrex Sep 2013 #9

That wouldn't be logical, this group seems to agree that human magnified global warming is real. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #18

I was assuming the coworker must have gotten the story mangled starroute Sep 2013 #24

That's possible but it could be related to this Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #25

Let's celebrate over drinks of carbonated sea water! CreekDog Sep 2013 #10

Tell him the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary. xfundy Sep 2013 #11

He's probably referring to something released by the Heartland Institute deutsey Sep 2013 #12

It's from some group started by the UN marshall Sep 2013 #13

Ask him, "What committee?" nt joeybee12 Sep 2013 #14

Check the DailyMail gvstn Sep 2013 #15

This is the yearly denier circus in anticipation of the IPPC's annual report Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #16

Thanks for explaining the fake story in a nutshell. gvstn Sep 2013 #19

ClimateCrocks: IPCC AR5 Drops Tomorrow. Bone Up Today. Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #17

Wow--excellent information. Thanks! Orrex Sep 2013 #21

And, due to the el Nino/la Nina cycle, the oceans RELEASE the heat to us erratically.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #23

I believe last year was the warmest on record for the world ThomThom Sep 2013 #31

Reply ... "Oh, you mean the committee commissioned by Faux News? " lpbk2713 Sep 2013 #22

I don't have the link, but it's tied to something making the rounds on Facebook OmahaBlueDog Sep 2013 #27

well thank gaud, onethatcares Sep 2013 #28

He's probably talking about this: "global warming pause." GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #29