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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Askold on March 25, 2014, 02:09:01 am
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But it's not the side that you wish it was...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/22/climate-change-deniers-have-won-global-warming
David Cameron, who once promised that if you voted blue you would go green, now appoints Owen Paterson, a man who is not just ignorant of environmental science but proud of his ignorance, as his environment secretary. George Osborne, who once promised that his Treasury would be "at the heart of this historic fight against climate change", now gives billions in tax concessions to the oil and gas industry, cuts the funds for onshore wind farms and strips the Green Investment Bank of the ability to borrow and lend
Just because 97% of scientific studies support it doesn't mean much when the world in large does not care about that. Politicians and companies do not care about the evidence.
Companies spend fortunes on the politicians to ensure that any regulation that even manages to pass is practically toothless so that they don't have to change their methods. It does not matter how many people believe in climate change or want to do something about it: As long as the people that matter are in the pockets of the companies, there will be no actual reaction to the coming disaster.
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I think part of the problem is the fact that anthropogenic climate change is gradual.
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Oh, every time someone says "lol, global warming is a joke", I want to bat them in the head with a nailed bat.
I am not even a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I fucking hate David Cameron.
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I am not even a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I fucking hate David Cameron.
A large chunk of the country does. Yet we still managed to accidentally vote him in.