Scathing criticism of Koch brothers and climate change denialists

THEY’RE LIKE SMOKERS: Malcolm Turnbull turns on climate change sceptics, Perth Now November 06, 2011 Turnbull highlights new study by climate sceptics It still found the planet was 1C warmer than in 1950s FORMER Australian Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull has compared climate change sceptics with people who refuse to admit smoking causes lung cancer.

Mr Turnbull, who lost the Liberal leadership almost two years ago when he backed Labor’s old emissions trading scheme, has seized on a US study showing global temperatures are rising….. In his attack on climate-change deniers, Mr Turnbull highlighted a study of the world’s surface temperatures by Richard Muller, which was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers.

But despite drawing funding from industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch, the study by the University of Berkeley in California, still found the Earth was 1C warmer than in the 1950s. ”One of the big financiers of the anti-climate change movement is a family called Koch, K-O-C-H, and they put a lot of money into these climate sceptic organisations and they’ve got big interest in fossil fuels,” Mr Turnbull told the Seven Network on Sunday.

Mr Turnbull said the backers of the study “presumably” hoped to demonstrate climate science was not reliable, and used the results to criticise people who continually question global warming. ”They’re like the guy who gets told by his doctor to stop smoking, lose weight and decides not to do that,” he said. ”He met a mate down the pub who said his Uncle Ernie had lived ’til 95 but he smoked a packet every day. It’s ridiculous.”….
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/theyre-like-smokers-malcolm-turnbull-turns-on-climate-change-sceptics/story-e6frg19l-1226186990042

November 13, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general

2 Comments »

This isnt nuclear news.

Comment by joe | November 13, 2011 | Reply
On the contrary, Joe, this IS nuclear news. The nuclear issue has many facets. And the nuclear lobby tells many lies.
The most serious and pervasive of the lies of the nuclear lobby is that nuclear power is a solution to global warming.
In the corporate establishment, there are some, like the Kochs, who forge ahead, denying climate change – pushing fossil fuel interests, because money is all important to them now.
There are other corporate greedies, with a similar money motivation, who do accept, indeed, promote the idea of global warming – for the sole purpose of selling nuclear power to the world.
All of these liars must be answered, as the world moves towards energy conservation and truly clean alternative energy.

Comment by Christina MacPherson | November 13, 2011 | Reply