You have betrayed where you are getting your information (Fox News) - and that you are not reading links. That's your choice - but means you are not really interested in getting new information. (I do notice that you make numerous statements of 'categoric fact' - yet give no evidence in support of what you are saying.) Some of what you are saying is simply not supported by the facts - as in the case of warming over the last 30 years (which includes the last 15 years).
In the link discussing the out-right lying Fox news is engaging in regarding Climate Change, the year 1997 and the claim of 15 (17) years of no warming is directly spoken to: "On September 30 of last year (2013), Gutfeld (of Fox News) accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of obfuscation saying the 'experts pondered hiding the news that the earth hadn’t . . . warmed in 15 years, despite an increase in emissions. They concluded that the missing heat was trapped in the ocean.' To the contrary, IPCC scientists publicly discussed the “relationship between surface temperature trends, heat trapped in the ocean, and the flow of heat throughout the planet as the climate warms."
"Fox News downplays climate change by looking at tiny snippets of recent time. Krauthammer has outright denied increasing temperatures on our planet: “temperatures have been flat for 16 years.” Rich Lowry similarly stated that the earth hasn’t warmed in 15 years, as did Gutfeld. However, the IPCC has found, with science, a correlation between increase carbon dioxide emissions and increased temperatures over the 250 years."
"The thought-process among Fox News hosts is completely backwards. Instead of letting scientific findings influence their stance on policy, they are letting their ideology influence, or skew, science. This make no sense. As the UCS aptly stated, “the most productive step that Fox could take to improve the accuracy of its coverage of climate science would be for hosts and guests to differentiate between scientific facts about climate change and political opinions about climate policy.” "
Many of your points are old canards long since unravelled. We know where the disinformation is coming from (Fox News is a big offender) and who we are having to deal with (Koch brothers et al). It is a powerful status-quo that does not want their flow of wealth impeded - do not wish to be accountable to the rest of us for what they do, what they destroy.
Industry vs. Environment: The Battle over Climate Change
LINK: Industry vs. Environment: The Battle over Climate Change - Ring Of Fire Radio: Robert Kennedy Jr, Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
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- The Carbon Disclosure Project represents 722 investors and a total of $87 trillion in assets, about one-third of the world’s invested capital, calling for companies to disclose their carbon emissions and climate change strategies. The CDP holds the largest collection of climate change and environmental information on companies and aims to use it to reduce companies’ impacts on the environment.
- Right-wing media outlets such as Fox News and Rush Limbaugh decrease trust in scientists, thereby decreasing the trust in science and climate change. According to Skeptical Science, a study on conservative media outlets and global warming denial finds five main methods that outlets use to create distrust in scientists, including: 1) “presenting contrarian scientists as ‘objective’ experts while presenting mainstream scientists as self-interested or biased,” 2) “denigrating scientific institutions and peer-reviewed journals,” 3) equating peer-reviewed research with a politically liberal opinion,” 4) “accusing climate scientists of manipulating data to fund research projects,” and 5) “characterizing climate science as a religion.”
- The US Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobbying group that represents mega-corporations, fights climate change legislation and opposes federal efforts to regulate CO2 emissions. In 2009, the Chamber spent over $65 million actively campaigning against climate change legislation. It has taken a lead role in challenging EPA attempts to regulate greenhouse gases and continues to cast doubt on climate change science, Environment360 reports.
- Republican politicians, some on the Environment and Public Works Committee and other government environmental boards, continue to fight climate change legislation and EPA efforts. In April, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) claimed that Al Gore, the United Nations, MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, and George Soros are responsible for creating the climate change “hoax.” Politicians are often backed by industry contributions.
- Conservative think tanks and institutes fund climate change denial, spread misinformation, and incite tensions. Two trusts, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund were created by ideologue billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife to fund over 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit the science behind climate change. One recipient of Donors Trust funds, the Heartland Institute, is notorious for spreading climate change science denial by targeting children by attempting to integrate anti-climate science materials into schools.
