Over at Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic.....

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...they are reacting in typical psychotic fashion to the news that a lobbying group attempted to bribe a group of scientists in exchange for their scientific integrity regarding the proven theory of global warming.

Read the hilarity here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778387/posts

Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study (oops)
The Guardian (UK) ^ | February 2, 2007 | Ian Sample

Posted on 02/02/2007 5:36:26 PM PST by amchugh

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: GLOBALWARMING
Oops, this was probably a tactical error on Exxon-Mobile's part.
1 posted on 02/02/2007 5:36:28 PM PST by amchugh
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To: amchugh

Ten grand is like taking candy from a baby when it comes to a summary of a report that is based in stupidity of global proportions...

2 posted on 02/02/2007 5:38:46 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: amchugh

Of course, considering all the millions in grant monies that will only get awarded to you if you say that you're going to do research to PROVE global warming...

3 posted on 02/02/2007 5:41:40 PM PST by beezdotcom
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To: amchugh

Oh sure. $10,000 is going to buy a lot of people with million dollar educations and tenure in Colleges and Universities. Whoever concocted this story is probably alternating between McDonells, and some technical institute.

4 posted on 02/02/2007 5:42:00 PM PST by billhilly
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To: amchugh
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group grant funded by one of the world's largest oil companies government to undermine bolster a major climate change report due to be published today.

Changed the actors a bit and there is no difference. Scientists can be 'bought'

[baby_mouse]

1. Sometimes I think it must be like being inside a Christmas tree decoration.

You know the type, the mirrored ones.

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2. Or a really loud echo chamber....

...lol

[boomboom]

3. I am forced to listen to right wing radio here in Dallas TX on my way to and from work

every day. And they're all incensed about global warming. Why??? I know they all get the same talking points faxed to them every day ..... but even the callers are calling Al Gore and the scientists idiots. I don't get it....the callers sure don't sound like oil company ceo's. What is it about global warming that pisses off the right wing "plain folk" so much?

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5. It's a threat to the other substitute....

...for their small members, SUVs.

[Pharaoh]

6. They don't want to give up

their pick up trucks and hummers, ect I guess,

but perhaps they're just dumber than dirt,,,,,

[trotsky]

9. What irks them... what really, really irks them...

is that we liberals have been proven right AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. Their entire philosophy is bankrupt - nothing their heroes have promised them has come true. But what those nattering nabobs of liberalism told them from the very start, was RIGHT. Oh and that just twists their underwear!

[baby_mouse]

11. My sympathy is withheld.

And, given their loathing towards people like me, I allow myself a smile...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. The callers don't have to get faxed their talking points. They are the ultimate recipients/targets

of the talking points; they absorb them gradually, repeatedly, from radio and TV and then repeat them back in their calls and in their conversations at work and with family and friends.

[AlCzervik]

4. notice they don't mention how many "Grants" oil companies give away

to "scientists" to try and debunk Global warming.

Freeperz is stoopid.

[Kurovski]

7. And the chumps are doin' it for free...

maybe that's the underlying angst.

[onehandle]

8. RimJob's FreeRepublic. nt

[Old and In the Way]

10. If Bush suddenly proclaimed the moon was made of green cheese...

well, they'd just have to forget about all that science stuff they learned in school and fall into line like obedient, mindless little robots.

[yurbud]

12. who are the rich environmentalists that they think are buying off scientists?

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13. heck yeah! good point!

[yurbud]

18. Green Peace and the Sierra Club versus big oil...if I was in it for the money, I'd pick the whale

huggers every time.

[frylock]

15. i always look forward to your installments of 'over at jr's fr'..

solid entertainment man!

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16. My pleasure....

....

[rurallib]

17. Exxon should have tried to hire the scientists from Freerepublic

to do their bidding. From the comments I see they have a thorough grasp of the matter and can express it so well. 1111111