"Please also bear in mind that the discussion of contemporary politics is heavily discouraged on these boards."
Sure, there's big money on both sides of the issue, from the article in question:
"My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House. Much to my surprise, I showed up in the WikiLeaks relea
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Tommi Huhtamaki Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> These are people who not only do now personally
> benefit from climate research, would gain more
> funds if less was directed towards climate
> research.
?
"The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria. The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) can't figure out what benefits taxp
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Follow the money. Solving the Global Warming "problem" is a jobs program for science, engineering
construction interests. For some it's become a fundamentalist religion.
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
An end to grey hair and crows-feet could be just 10 years away after scientists showed it is possible to reverse ageing in animals.
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google
by
WVK
-
Humanities
I am able to get around the pay window by googling:
"My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic"
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
"I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax. But my research led me to a conclusion that many climate campaigners find unacceptable: There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally. In fact we are in an era of good fo
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Climate change isnt the only reason for flooding:
"Some of the world’s expanding coastal cities face a two-pronged threat involving water: Sticking giant straws into the ground to suck up freshwater can cause the ground below to sink at the same time that sea levels are rising.
That interplay between subsiding land and rising seas highlights an underappreciated risk in global climate cha
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Antarctic sea ice had barely changed from where it was 100 years ago, scientists have discovered, after poring over the logbooks of great polar explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Yea, don't you just hate flushing toilets
by
WVK
-
Humanities
The incredible moment an uncontacted Amazon tribe - still untouched by civilisation - stare in wonder at a photographer's plane flying above them
Read more:
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
by
WVK
-
Humanities
Restorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ.
by
WVK
-
Ancient History
It is believed these deadly blasts of air that can flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean could be behind the vanishing of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Metallic aluminium was not produced by mankind until around 200 years ago - but this appears manufactured making the object a baffling find
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Astronomers have been analysing light signals from 2.5 million stars observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and have detected strange 'strobe-like' bursts coming from not one, but 234 stars.
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
"Hubble telescope images from deep space were collected over 20 years to solve the puzzle of how many galaxies the cosmos harbors"
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
WVK Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> How much time would it take to carve a
> replacement? What do you do with the amassed
> workforce while it's being done?
I suppose that a smaller replacement, one that would fit through the passages, could have been produced while the rest of the pyramid was completed. Perhaps, for whatever reasons, the sarc
by
WVK
-
Ancient Egypt
How much time would it take to carve a replacement? What do you do with the amassed workforce while it's being done?
by
WVK
-
Ancient Egypt
"Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it.
At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report."
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
As the sun's spots get blanked out for the fourth time in 2016, it becomes totally blank, which may herald a mini Ice Age
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Scientists Find Second Tool-Using Genius Crow
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Flying is the dream of every human. Of course we have airplanes to make that dream a reality. A commercial flight can travel at an altitude of 30000-40000 ft. But some birds can reach such great altitude very easily. The followings are 10 highest flying birds in the world.dream of every human. Of course we have airplanes to make that dream a reality. A commercial flight can travel at an altitude
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Cancer may not be so modern after all.
Though we typically think of it as a new affliction attributed to bad habits, bad luck or longevity, a surprising discovery has revealed that the disease existed in human ancestors more than a million years ago.
by
WVK
-
Laboratory
Meet Rocky the orangutan - the giant ape who has learnt to TALK like a human
by
WVK
-
Humanities