Unpleasant or deluded people give lots of money to good causes.
If deniers and right wing crazies want to fund legitimate climate science,
why not pitch for their money?
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On Dec 12, 2012 10:55 AM, "David Lewis" <jrandomwin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the site in question ("Giving What We Can") has a Climate Change
> page<http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/where-to-give/charity-evaluation/climate-change>
> which
> refers its visitors to Bjorn Lomborg's "Copenhagen Consensus 2012"
> website <http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Projects/CC12.aspx> when
> explaining how the author of the "Giving What We Can" climate change and
> geoengineering pages decided geoengineering was a good thing the people the
> website encourages people who want to donate 10% of their income to worthy
> causes should try to fund. Lomborg's horsebleep list of the top 20 things
> his august committee decided were the most important things they would
> spend $75 billion on, if they had it, did not include one penny for
> mitigation of emissions of any greenhouse gas. (The top 20 list is near the
> bottom of this
> webpage<http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Projects/CC12/Outcome.aspx>.)
> Lomborg's
> panel didn't think one dime of their $75 billion should go into encouraging
> deployment or even R&D into any form of low carbon energy. *Geoengineering
> R&D* ranked #12 on the Lomborg Top 20.
>
> On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:01:25 AM UTC-8, andrewjlockley wrote:
>>
>> Posters note: This is of interest....
>>
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