Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight action on climate change

Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by scotty79 on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:55PM (#6955509)

Funny thing is that they burn through all this money to publicize the thing that isn't true but they wished it was. As if this wasn't physical reality but some sort of soft, social thing like if allowing non-whites have same rights or women to vote is good idea or not.

In the end you can't bribe physics.

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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by jswinghammer on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:03PM (#6955556)

It would a stretch to equate the current state of climate science with the current state of physics in terms of the reliability of its' predictive models.

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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by snowwrestler on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:12PM (#6955975)

This creates a false dichotomy between climate science and physics. Researchers studying the climate use physical models to do so. And their accuracy is not bad--100 years ago they predicted that burning fossil fuels would warm the climate, and that matches what we measure today.

The precision is low, though. That is a result of the chaos created by the immense complexity of the systems involved. We can't predict the precise path of an individual electron through a bar of copper either.

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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by cashmonkey85 on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:32PM (#6956063)

I know people that denie carbon dioxide traps heat and wish that basic science is a conspiracy.

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