Weather and Climate change

[Dill]

(08-07-2019, 09:23 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Is there something wrong with investing in renewable energy?

If you make your profits from carbon extraction, then yes, absolutely.

Millions of dollars spent in funding climate denial secures billions in profits. No brainer there.

There is a phrase used once by Lenin--"useful idiots"--to describe capitalists who would work with Communists (for a profit) to help undermine their own economic system, their interest being wholly focused on personal profit and not the common good or larger political and economic trends.

Extraction industries follow a similar model in buying politicians and journalists. The goal is then to create, in the minds of the public, the illusion that the scientific consensus on GW is unsettled--a model borrowed from efforts of big Tobacco to forestall government "interference" in tobacco sales, especially efforts to addict new and ever younger customers to their product.

There was a great article on "the denial machine" in Newsweek back in 2007.https://web.archive.org/web/20071022035106/http://www.newsweek.com/id/32482/page/2.

As a social phenomenon, denial is in its own right an interesting subject, worthy of study. They often like to flip the script on the science community by claiming their research is somehow driven by a 2 trillion dollar solar energy industry, supposedly the mirror image of big oil. lol