[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[Adam Todd]

At 12:24 AM 4/02/2007, Eleanor Lister wrote:
>Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >>     global warming (and also tended to use the term climate change
> >> instead --spin). The reason for this discrepancy? An active campaign >
> > The global warming v climate change language is a Bush White House
> > thing. I heard somewhere that the US administration always changes it
> > to 'climate change' because 'global warming' was seen to be too
> > alarming. Change is thought to be a neutral word.
> >
> > Jan
> >
>
>many people say "climate change" because it needs to be emphasised that
>warming is not the only effect that is at hand, things like hurricanes,
>earthquakes, changed ocean currents and many other effects have various
>linkages beyond greenhouse.

I prefer to call it the "Belligerent Baby Boomers" Universal History 
Experience in a Blink of Time.

I think many want Dinosaurs as pets.

>some of these are caused by the massive pollution and overfishing of our
>oceans, which for most people is out-of-sight, out-of-mind, the hole in
>the ozone layer, clearfelling of forests, mass extinctions of wildlife,
>and so on.

Yeah well I can feel the hole in the ozone layer.  My skin tingles when I 
get direct sunlight on it now.

Time for full body suits.

>to just say "global warming" narrows the debate to a scale the Exxon
>spin-doctors can handle fairly easily, and allows them wiggle room to
>propose bandaid solutions like Nucular Powa, with the insanity that
>follows it.

Global Warming is a side affect of all the damage that the last 50-75 years 
has done without anyone giving a care other than how much profit they can 
make doing it.