Rolling Stone Covers Enemies Of Climate Change

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by Michael dEstries January 12, 2010
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Rolling Stone magazine has shot back at critics of climate change with an in-depth spread titled “The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.”

From the usual suspects like ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson and crazy-hat Sen. James Inhofe to lesser-known villains in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and “hack scientist” Fred Singer, RS runs down the list of those who put us all at risk with their special interest agendas and dumb science.

My particular favorite is Republican Joe Barton. Here’s the magazine’s brief summary of his position on climate change:

As ranking Republican on the House energy committee, Barton is a mini version of Sen. James Inhofe. In his view, the climate is changing for “natural variation reasons,” and humans should just “get shade” and learn to adapt. “For us to try to step in and say we have got to do all these global things to prevent the Earth from getting any warmer is absolute nonsense,” he insists. “You can’t regulate God.”

Check out the full article here.


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  • Allison

    The same people who say things like, “You can’t regulate God,” in response to climate change are the same people who site Michael Creighton as a credible authority on the subject.

    I wonder if they know just how ridiculous they sound.

    For years those who profited from the industries that contribute to climate change denied that climate change existed, and then when they could no longer deny it they rationalized it, calling it “naturally” occurring. Meanwhile people continue getting richer and fatter polluting and damaging the Earth.

  • http://www.ecochica101.blogspot.com Nicole D

    Is this the cover of the magazine??

  • krissy

    Barton also said that he’d pay to have a philly climate scientist exposed as a fraud. Hes hoping to discredit the movement by discrediting the scientists behind it. A scientific consensus makes discrediting all of them impossible. He wasnt paying attention when Texas was dying of drought and there was a mass culling of cattle. Oil is just more important to him. He probably will cheer when the sea level rise eats up the east coast tho.

  • Gabriel B. Atega

    It is unfair to call those who criticize the false claims of changing climate due to CO2 as idiots. Climate has always been changing due to several variables: solar radiation, the Earth’s precession, the retreat of the ice sheets since after the peak of the last ice age, the rates of evaporation that compensates for whatever fresh water are added to the surface of the oceans, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, global deforestation, ocean heat buildup and ocean temperature oscillations, etc. CO2 as one of the variables has the most negligible impact of these. The reason: CO2 has the least quantity in the atmosphere at only .038% of total. Check the laws of thermodynamics, and find out if .038% of CO2 can heat up the 99% of hydrogen, oxygen and other gasses. CO2 is heavier than air and so when it is cooled down it quickly precipitates to the ground where it is absorbed by plant life, CO2 absorbing microbes, and ocean planktons which altogether produce oxygen. The heavier weight of CO2 as against the weight of air insures that not much of it will stay permanently up in the atmosphere.

    Check instead the volume of water vapor which is lighter than air, and has a specific heat capacity twice that of CO2, and the quantity in the atmosphere is at 4% if included in the count of atmospheric gasses (but they don’t and this is part of the reason why there is a lack of understanding in the role of water vapor in building up heat in the atmosphere and in the oceans).

    The problem with climate change advocates is the lack of verifiable science to back up their claims and the lack of honesty that there is not enough proof that CO2 is the main cause.

    This writer believes that there is global warming. But it is not CO2 that is driving it. The logic is simple: the ice has been melting since after the peak of the last Ice Age, even before cars were invented, even before the industrial revolution. And so ask what caused the ice sheets to retreat? The answer to the question is the thing that drives the climate, and definitely it is not CO2.

    CO2 is not a pollutant. Let us not confuse pollution with CO2, and let us not confuse global warming with climate change. Let us begin to show straightforward science instead of resorting to name calling.

  • richard pauli

    Rolling Stone – cowards – have disappeared the article from the Internet.

    1. Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway (investments)
    2. Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corporation (Fox News, WSJ, MySpace, etc.)
    3. Jack Gerard, President, American Petroleum Institute
    4. Rex Tillerson, CEO, ExxonMobile (funding climate denial by the Heritage Foundation)
    5. Sen. Mary Landrieu, Democrat, Louisiana (campaign funding by Big Oil)
    6. Marc Morano, Founder, Climate Depot (funded by Richard Mellon Scaife); former producer for Rush Limbaugh
    7. Sen. James Inhofe, Republican, Oklahoma
    8. David Ratcliffe, CEO, Southern Company
    9. Dick Gephardt, CEO, Gephardt Group; Lobbyist for Peabody Energy; former US House majority leader
    10. George Will, Commentator, ABC
    11. Tom Donohue, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
    12. Don Blankenship, CEO, Massey Energy
    13. Fred Singer, Retired physicist, University of Virginia; former mouthpiece of Big Tobacco
    14. Sen. John McCain, Republican, Arizona
    15. Rep. Joe Barton, Republican, Texas
    16. and 17. Charles and David Koch, CEO and Executive Vice President, Koch Industries

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