Comments on: May 5 printed letters http://community.gjsentinel.com/2008/05/05/384/ Grand Junction, Colorado's community Web site, discussions, forums, message boards and more. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nigel_Spumoni http://community.gjsentinel.com/2008/05/05/384/#comment-2058 Nigel_Spumoni Mon, 05 May 2008 16:35:04 +0000 http://community.gjsentinel.com/2008/05/05/384/#comment-2058 Sad indeed. And, this completely reveals how easy it is to dupe the thumb-sucking American public. The oil & gas industry will stop at nothing to get their way, whether it's outright buying scientists & politicians, or funding oppressive military regimes. From another headline in today's Sentinel regading sensible taxation on this industry: "....No matter how popular a severance tax increase might be, the energy industry will throw everything it has into winning the fight....Campaign finance records show, during the 2006 election cycle, opponents (that is, the O&G industry) of the ballot measure spent nearly $93 million to defeat the measure." And - from another post on this site related to the discussion of Mr, Hayden's letter, above: Yet another perfect example of the climate-change denier’s tactics: “..…The Alaska state Legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon — researchers just have to fill in the science part. A $2 million program funded with little debate by the Legislature last month calls for using state money to fund an ‘academic based’ conference that highlights contrarian scientific research on global warming. Legislators hope to undermine the public perception of a widespread consensus among polar bear researchers that warming global temperatures and melting Arctic ice threaten the polar bears’ survival.” The complete story is at: http://www.adn.com/polarbears/story/395540.html Completely undermines decades worth of research on polar bears and dramatically changing arctic climate. “….One legislator who opposed the polar bear appropriation dismissed it as a ‘$2 million sound bite’ ginned up by legislators for the campaign year.” Mind you, AK is a state that receives upwards of 85% of state revenues from oil & gas monies. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Sad indeed. And, this completely reveals how easy it is to dupe the thumb-sucking American public. The oil & gas industry will stop at nothing to get their way, whether it’s outright buying scientists & politicians, or funding oppressive military regimes.

From another headline in today’s Sentinel regading sensible taxation on this industry:

“….No matter how popular a severance tax increase might be, the energy industry will throw everything it has into winning the fight….Campaign finance records show, during the 2006 election cycle, opponents (that is, the O&G industry) of the ballot measure spent nearly $93 million to defeat the measure.”

And - from another post on this site related to the discussion of Mr, Hayden’s letter, above:

Yet another perfect example of the climate-change denier’s tactics:

“..…The Alaska state Legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon — researchers just have to fill in the science part.

A $2 million program funded with little debate by the Legislature last month calls for using state money to fund an ‘academic based’ conference that highlights contrarian scientific research on global warming. Legislators hope to undermine the public perception of a widespread consensus among polar bear researchers that warming global temperatures and melting Arctic ice threaten the polar bears’ survival.”

The complete story is at: http://www.adn.com/polarbears/story/395540.html

Completely undermines decades worth of research on polar bears and dramatically changing arctic climate. “….One legislator who opposed the polar bear appropriation dismissed it as a ‘$2 million sound bite’ ginned up by legislators for the campaign year.”

Mind you, AK is a state that receives upwards of 85% of state revenues from oil & gas monies. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

]]> By: Bruce86 http://community.gjsentinel.com/2008/05/05/384/#comment-2052 Bruce86 Mon, 05 May 2008 16:12:16 +0000 http://community.gjsentinel.com/2008/05/05/384/#comment-2052 It's unfortunate that Dr. Hayden's letter of insinuation, disingenuous claims, fabrications, and smears was published in the Sentinel. Dr. Hayden did not reveal that he also serves on "think" tanks that are partially funded by Exxon and thus has a financial stake in Dr. Singer being accepted as an "expert." This Letter to the Editor serves no public good. It only serves to further the mission of the American Petroleum Institute's Action Plan to sow confusion about the state of climate science via media infiltration by hand-picked (and properly trained) "scientists." http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/binaries/leaked-api-comms-plan-1998 Sad. It’s unfortunate that Dr. Hayden’s letter of insinuation, disingenuous claims, fabrications, and smears was published in the Sentinel. Dr. Hayden did not reveal that he also serves on “think” tanks that are partially funded by Exxon and thus has a financial stake in Dr. Singer being accepted as an “expert.”

This Letter to the Editor serves no public good. It only serves to further the mission of the American Petroleum Institute’s Action Plan to sow confusion about the state of climate science via media infiltration by hand-picked (and properly trained) “scientists.”
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/binaries/leaked-api-comms-plan-1998

Sad.

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