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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:32 AM
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How could I find quotations of Republicans denying Global Warming
I did some goggling but coudln't turn up anything? Does anyone know a resource. I'm putting an article up on my blog about global warming and I want to quote some prominent republicans who continue to drink Exxon's coolaid and deny it as some liberal conspiracy.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:37 AM
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1. I don't think they deny it anymore, but their spin has changed
They've evolved over the years...

First it was:
"Global Warming Doesn't Exist"
Then it was:
"Global Warming exists, but it doesn't matter"
Then it was:
"Global Warming exists, does matter, but isn't cause my man"


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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:42 AM
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2. Yeah, right! LOL
And they won't admit that draining the "lifeblood" (oil) from the earth won't eventually make her dry up, either. Frucking bloodsuckers! It's all about the money. I hope they invest it all in one corrupt corporation and it goes belly up. Then they'll see what it's like on the other side of the fence.
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MARALE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 11:10 AM
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3. I found this:
There is no scientific debate in which the White House has cooked the books more than that of global warming. The Bush administration has altered, suppressed or attempted to discredit close to a dozen major reports on the subject. These include a 10-year study by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), commissioned by the President's father in 1993 in his own efforts to dodge what was already a virtual scientific consensus blaming industrial emissions for global warming.

After disavowing the Kyoto protocol, the Bush administration commissioned the federal government's National Academy of Sciences to find holes in the IPCC's analysis. But this ploy backfired. The NAS not only confirmed the existence of global warming and its connection to industrial greenhouse gases; it also predicted that the effects of climate change would be worse than previously believed, estimating that global temperatures will rise by between 2.5F and 10.4F by 2100.

In July this year, EPA scientists leaked a study, which the agency had ordered suppressed in May, showing that a Senate plan ­ co-sponsored by Republican Senator John McCain ­ to reduce the pollution that causes global warming could achieve its goal at very small cost. Bush reacted by launching a $100m 10-year effort to prove that global temperature changes have, in fact, occurred naturally ­ another delay tactic for the fossil-fuel barons.

There is no better example of the corporate cronyism now hijacking American democracy than the White House's cozy relationship with the energy industry. The energy industry contributed more than $48m to Republicans in the 2000 election cycle, with $3m to George Bush. Both Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney came out of the oil patch. Thirty-one of the Bush transition team's 48 members had energy-industry ties. Bush's cabinet and White House staff is an energy-industry dream team ­ four cabinet secretaries, the six most powerful White House officials and more than 20 high-level appointees are alumni of the industry and its allies.

http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000084-4.html
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