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>Captain Compassion wrote:
>

>> The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale didn't come into existence until
>> 1969 and the ability to measure wind speed in many Hurricanes didn't
>> start until Airplanes could fly into the heart of storms around 1945
>> so the actual measurement as well as knowledge of many storms prior to
>> WWII is a matter of conjecture.

>
>The barometer is the final decisive instrument, over-ruling every
>alternative measure. Barometers have existed with the same accuracy as
>today's barometers for the entire history of hurricane records of 160
>years. There are some barometer records going back to the 1870s.
>

>Nobody makes a mistake between a category 5 and a category 1.
>
>You know if it was a MAJOR HURRICANE or not.
>
>Who has more money for science research, EXXON or YOU? Who has more
>than 12,000 patents filed by staff scientists, EXXON or YOU. When they
>say CO2 causes Global Warming Climate Change, you shut your dicksucking
>mouth and accept it.
>

>Exxon Surrenders but Right-Turd keeps sucking their dead dick:
>Exxon said
>"Greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors that contribute to
>climate change...
>

>http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tob...
>
>Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation
>Campaign on Global Warming Science
>Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create
>Confusion
>
>ExxonMobil Report
>Read the Report
>ExxonMobil Report (PDF)
>Appendix C (PDF high resolution)
>Appendix C (part 1)
>Appendix C (part 2)
>Appendix C (part 3)
>
>WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3-A new report from the Union of Concerned
>Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how
>ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics,
>as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the
>scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the
>issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16
>million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations
>that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.
>
>"ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of
>global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused
>lung cancer," said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists'
>Director of Strategy & Policy. "A modest but effective investment has
>allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay
>government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years."
>
>Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to
>"Manufacture Uncertainty" on Climate Change details how the oil
>company, like the tobacco industry in previous decades, has
>
> * raised doubts about even the most indisputable scientific
>evidence
> * funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance
>of a broad platform for a tight-knit group of vocal climate change
>contrarians who misrepresent peer-reviewed scientific findings
> * attempted to portray its opposition to action as a positive quest
>for "sound science" rather than business self-interest
> * used its access to the Bush administration to block federal
>policies and shape government communications on global warming
>
>ExxonMobil-funded organizations consist of an overlapping collection of
>individuals serving as staff, board members, and scientific advisors
>that publish and re-publish the works of a small group of climate
>change contrarians. The George C. Marshall Institute, for instance,
>which has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil, recently touted a book
>edited by Patrick Michaels, a long-time climate change contrarian who
>is affiliated with at least 11 organizations funded by ExxonMobil.
>Similarly, ExxonMobil funds a number of lesser-known groups such as the
>Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy and Committee for a
>Constructive Tomorrow. Both groups promote the work of several climate
>change contrarians, including Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist who is
>affiliated with at least nine ExxonMobil-funded groups.
>
>Baliunas is best known for a 2003 paper alleging the climate had not
>changed significantly in the past millennia that was rebutted by 13
>scientists who stated she had misrepresented their work in her paper.
>This renunciation did not stop ExxonMobil-funded groups from continuing
>to promote the paper. Through methods such as these, ExxonMobil has
>been able to amplify and prop up work that has been discredited by
>reputable climate scientists.
>
>"When one looks closely, ExxonMobil's underhanded strategy is as clear
>and indisputable as the scientific research it's meant to discredit,"
>said Seth Shulman, an investigative journalist who wrote the UCS
>report. "The paper trail shows that, to serve its corporate interests,
>ExxonMobil has built a vast echo chamber of seemingly independent
>groups with the express purpose of spreading disinformation about
>global warming."
>
>ExxonMobil has used the laudable goal of improving scientific
>understanding of global warming-under the guise of "sound
>science"-for the pernicious ends of delaying action to reduce
>heat-trapping emissions indefinitely. ExxonMobil also exerted
>unprecedented influence over U.S. policy on global warming, from
>successfully recommending the appointment of key personnel in the Bush
>administration to funding climate change deniers in Congress.
>
>"As a scientist, I like to think that facts will prevail, and they do
>eventually," said Dr. James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of
>Biological Oceanography at Harvard University and former chair of the
>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on climate
>change impacts. "It's shameful that ExxonMobil has sought to obscure
>the facts for so long when the future of our planet depends on the
>steps we take now and in the coming years."
>
>The burning of oil and other fossil fuels results in additional
>atmospheric carbon dioxide that blankets the Earth and traps heat. The
>amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased greatly over the last
>century and global temperatures are rising as a result. Though
>solutions are available now that will cut global warming emissions
>while creating jobs, saving consumers money, and protecting our
>national security, ExxonMobil has manufactured confusion around climate
>change science, and these actions have helped to forestall meaningful
>action that could minimize the impacts of future climate change.
>
>"ExxonMobil needs to be held accountable for its cynical disinformation
>campaign on global warming," said Meyer. "Consumers, shareholders and
>Congress should let the company know loud and clear that its behavior
>on this issue is unacceptable and must change."