Koch Brothers and Others hit the intellectual wall on Climate Change Denial

by: Zappatero

Sat Jul 28, 2012 at 22:58:19 PM MST

Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.

The single biggest funder of this study is the "Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000)." The Kochs are the leading funder of climate disinformation in the world!

Our results show that the average temperature of the earth's land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming.

UPDATE/CAVEAT: False Evidence is not necessarily needed to provide support for climate change deniers. It only helps them justify holding a belief clearly counter to reality.

Oklahoma drought worsening.

Republican Senator from Oklahoma James Inhofe writes a book saying God approves of his climate change denial.

Here's Oklahoma's other dumass Senator Tom Coburn:

Environmental scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) are stepping up to defend their research on greenhouse gas emissions in the dairy industry. The defense follows an attack from Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who claims that the researchers' "cow burp" study is a waste of government dough. The conservative Oklahoma Republican ranked the UNH study as number 58 in the "Wastebook" report released last week, his yearly catalog of what he considers the 100 most "wasteful" federally funded projects.

But what Sen. Coburn fails to understand in his glib appraisal of the research is how critical the study is not only to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also helping farmers and businesses involved with the dairy industry.

And my usual reminder: these are the morans that our two Democratic Senators are dying to be bipartisan with.