Running an energy empire of Oil refineries and Coal mining -- Millions of Dollars.
Funding the Groups who are choreographing the Tea Party unrest -- Millions of Dollars.
Buying an exhibit in a prestigious world-famous Museum, to make people believe Climate Change -- is No Big Deal
-- Priceless !@!
er, ah, wait a second. Scratch that.
That last one had a Price Tag too. $15 Million Dollars to be exact.
Who says, Membership has its Privileges !?
Creating wide-spread national confusion on the Science of Climate Change, takes time, takes effort, but most of all it takes Money -- LOTS of it.
Good thing for the $35 Billion Dollar Koch Industries empire -- they have NO Shortage of Cash to throw around, to get "their message -- out there".
Anyone want to buy an exhibit? say the ...
The Smithsonian's: Hall of Human Origins exhibit ?
Anyone ? the Bidding starts at 15 Million ...
Drats! Too slow! Some billionaire beat you to the punch.
Here a crash course on how Climate Change Denial works -- in case you forgot; in case you never knew ...
Must-see video: Polluter-funded Smithsonian exhibit whitewashes danger of human-caused climate change
Koch money and dubious displays put credibility of entire museum and science staff on the line
climateprogress.org -- April 1, 2010
Yes, the Smithsonian took $15 million from a billionaire polluter — who is an even bigger funder of disinformation on climate science than Exxon Mobil — to fund a misleading exhibit on evolution and climate change. See also the new Think Progress post “A 'Grateful' Smithsonian Denies Greenwashing ‘Philanthropist’ David H. Koch’s Dirty Money.”
Gather round people. A real Scientist is going to critique of the David Koch's "bought and paid for" exhibit ...
The Smithsonian: Hall of Human Origins
Dr. Joseph Romm critiques David Koch's exhibit at the Smithsonian
video by Lee Fang of ThinkProgress
http://www.youtube.com/...
To quote the good Doctor ...
A 'Grateful Smithsonian Denies Greenwashing ‘Philanthropist’ David H. Koch’s Dirty Money
By Brad Johnson, thinkprogress.org -- Apr 1 2010
At Climate Progress, Dr. Joseph Romm reveals that "the Smithsonian downplays or ignores the risks posed by human-caused climate change in a number of exhibits," the worst being the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins:
Dr. Joseph Romm:
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The exhibit’s main theme is that extreme climate change in the past made humans very adaptable, an interesting theory based on limited data and lots of speculation. But its huge flaw is that it leaves visitors with the distinct impression that human-caused global warming is no big deal -- even though our understanding of the grave threat posed by that warming is based on far, far more research and data.
Well, let's let the good Doctor continue to explain his critique of the "Science by Koch", on display at the Smithsonian, near you!
previous climateprogress.org link
Dr. Joseph Romm:
Let’s be clear here. Not only has the atmospheric concentration of CO2 -- the principal human-generated greenhouse gas -- risen sharply in recent decades, it has risen at a rate that is unprecedented in the past million years (see “Humans boosting CO2 14,000 times faster than nature, overwhelming slow negative feedbacks“). As the author of 2008 study on this subject noted, “the average change in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 600,000 years has been just 22 parts per million by volume.” Humans have run up CO2 levels 100 ppm over the last two centuries. The author added, “Right now we have put the system entirely out of equilibrium.“
Even another 100 ppm change could be devastating to the billions of people who have settled in places based on current sea levels and fresh water from inland glaciers and relatively consistent levels of soil moisture and precipitation
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The extreme climate change 74,000 years ago — which is still a subject of much scientific debate — appears to have been driven by a massive volcano that led to a pretty rapid change in temperatures.
So yes, the Smithsonian is pointing out that an unusual episode of extreme climate change nearly wiped out the human race, but essentially ignores the threat posed by comparably extreme climate change today.
Talk about inconsistency! Talk about strawmen. Talk about Misdirection.
Because "we survived worse eons ago" -- that means Today's CO2-supercharged Atmosphere, will be just another one of those 'evolutionary blips'.
Move along people. How about some Popcorn?
er, aah ...
Pay no attention to that Scientist in the Video camera ...
Dr. Joseph Romm:
You see here, Today Here, it still makes it look like the Climate is shifting -- rapidly. Ironically only NOW, thanks to human emissions and Greenhouse Gases, is the Climate shifting frankly 1000s of times faster --
Romm continues:
Were driving the Climate to change thousands of times faster than in the past. But you don't get to see THAT here!
Well, that's odd? Maybe the printer "ran out ink" at the end there -- at that point marked "Today".
Any-Who! Nevermind, people.
Just don't forget David Koch's 'priceless' advice to America and the World -- about Climate Change:
"Don't Worry, we Humans will Adapt ... we always have."
It's just temperature tweaks. No. Big. Deal.
Now GO BACK to Work -- you slackers! Field trip's over.
