Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: 109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace. [View all]NNadir
(37,043 posts)...and hopefully will rise.
I think that it is important for prominent scientists to confront ignorance, and everything that Greenpeace spews is in fact, scientifically and ethically absurd.
It is nice to see a mainstream media outlet bringing this point up as well. I have always wanted to chuck my lunch when mainstream media refers to Greenpeace as if it were an environmental authority, or for an even worse case, as if they knew or cared anything at all about climate change, as if it was an authority on climate change.
In fact, Greenpeace has gone a long way to being a contributor to climate change, because not only are there zero members who could pass an entry level chemistry or biology class, there are also zero members who could pass a physics or engineering class.
As I've been reporting here, 2016 is proving to be an unprecedented disaster as a climate year, and the complete fools who mutter insipidly in that organization - when they're not pulling off puerile publicity stunts and trying to win Darwin awards - have a lot to do with what is happening.
All time record set for week-to-week annual measurements of annual CO2 increases at Mauna Loa.
Probably much of the damage done by these childish uneducated fools is now irredeemable, but again, it's nice to see the world's most accomplished scientists fighting back, and the media, which bought into their nonsense, reporting the scientific effort to correct at least some of the damage done by these fools. This gives me hope that perhaps we can save what can be saved, although what can be saved is clearly less than ever.