@blatham,
Quote:There's a post that is entirely lacking in integrity, McG.
1) the point was that capitalism can be and has been a route for massive duplicitousness and immoral behavior.
2) Thus the mention of tobacco
3) Further, the propagandist technique used by tobacco (casting doubt on the solid science of the health hazards of smoking) was subsequently adopted by the petroleum industry to cast doubt on the science of GW
4) I described the specifics of what Exxon had done.
1) Do you really think any other system hasn't? Capitalism isn't special in this regard, Communism and Socialism also see their fair share of duplicitous and immoral behavior. The difference I think is in many people enjoy the benefits of living in such a society. You have a much better chance of the average person becoming wealthy in a capitalist society than you do in either of the other economic societies. At least in a capitalist one people are mostly honest about their intentions, they want to make money.
2) easy pickings from another group you don't approve of.
3)This point couldn't be further from the truth and is a stretch at best. Proving that the planet is warming isn't that much of a stretch, we don't exactly live in a static environment and the climate has always changed. Pointing the finger at humans is where the doubt comes in. The very same people who started this science were the very same people who were already against the oil companies, bending the science to fit your views isn't science at all. There is no real "consensus" on man made global climate change, that has been debunked.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/#1f5afb5c3f9f
4)You sure did, doesn't mean you are right. There is good reason to doubt the "science" of man made climate change. As I noted above, the very people who were against oil companies found a convenient way of pushing blame on the oil companies and the general industrialization of the human race, we don't live in a static system. Have you ever been to area's that are miles and miles away from the ocean yet the dirt contains seashells? I always found it odd that areas 30 miles from the ocean, job sites I used to work on, when the big machines were digging ditches or holes for big pipping projects the dirt always contains tons and tones of seashells. Could it be that the ocean levels used to be much higher and a lot of San Diego area was under water?
Did you ever that Mars, a planet with little to no atmosphere has things called seeps. They are basically wet spots on the side of hills on the surface of Mars. Scientists were baffled by the discovery because they had taken pictures of some of these same area's before and hadn't seen them. It turns out that much like Earth Mars has seasons and the underground permafrost melts and "runs" down the hills causing the wet effect in the picture. How can a planet with little atmosphere get warm enough to cause permafrost to melt into enough of a liquid state that it turns to water ?
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0513-whats-seeping-on-mars.html
