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surrealAmerican

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19. I'm afraid I can't agree with you there.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #18)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:19 PM

Feb 2015

Even climate change deniers wouldn't dispute the existence of air pollution, nor the fact that it is caused by human activity. It's not the same thing.

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WOW - LBJ Acknowledged Man-Made Climate Change 50 Years Ago (archives) [View all] kpete Feb 2015 OP

But...but...but...that's when scientists were predicting an new Ice Age!!!!!!111111 jpak Feb 2015 #1

well, if the scientists were predicting a new ice age, why are you yelling about "deniers"? ND-Dem Feb 2015 #4

Because they were not predicting an Ice Age - that is a conservative denier myth jpak Feb 2015 #5

But actually, articles about global cooling were in the press in the 70s (I had a friend who took ND-Dem Feb 2015 #6

None of that was published in a peer reviewed paper - and deniers are still stupid jpak Feb 2015 #7

ordinary people get their news from media, not scientific papers. and in fact, some of it *was* ND-Dem Feb 2015 #8

Really? Which papers? jpak Feb 2015 #9

here's one: ND-Dem Feb 2015 #10

LOL - reading comprehension much? jpak Feb 2015 #11

So the fossil fuel industry owners and executives should be tried and imprisoned for crimes Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #2

that kpete Feb 2015 #3

And the nuclear industry - see post 12. nt bananas Feb 2015 #13

LBJ said "radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide" bananas Feb 2015 #12

And those ruinous billionaires believe they can live in a bubble on mars or the moon to escape Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #14

Great find! calimary Feb 2015 #15

geez BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2015 #16

He wasn't talking about climate. surrealAmerican Feb 2015 #17

A distinction without a difference. Scuba Feb 2015 #18

I'm afraid I can't agree with you there. surrealAmerican Feb 2015 #19

Oh dear. Scuba Feb 2015 #22

Air pollution was considered CO, not CO2. grahamhgreen Feb 2015 #20

Thus the EPA was born- under Nixon loyalsister Feb 2015 #21

LBJ will go down in history as one of the best rbrnmw Feb 2015 #23