On the contrary, often wise (as I know from direct and painful experience) to seek second opinion.https://twitter.com/LucianGeorge1/status/798897679447097344 …
This is a tiny scale of grassroots activism. Heartland has 2% of Greenpeace's budget. http://anomalyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/heartlandgate.html …
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are you reading these articles you're posting? It asserts no facts, relays a second-hand opinion without evidence.
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Exxon: 'the company simultaneously funded a campaign to manufacture doubt'https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/25/two-faced-exxon-the-misinformation-campaign-against-its-own-scientists …
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All these hysterical articles wrap their misleading headlines around the same small facts.
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Can we know who you are to confirm you're not a member of one of the groups mentioned in the 'hysterical articles'?
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No, I'm an anonymous blogger. You're posting articles, I'm telling you what's in them. I'm claiming no authority.
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I happen to be a very fast reader which is the only reason I'm able to keep up with your barrage.
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and I think it was at about this point that
@medialens blocked me. For reading the articles they posted links to.
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You're presumably relying on Hitchens being unable to use Googlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/science/more-oil-companies-could-join-exxon-mobil-as-focus-of-climate-investigations.html …
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ALEC another small-scale conservative think tank, funded by many businesses, pursuing many conservative goals.
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Interesting. Here's a slightly larger organisation 'pursuing many conservative goals'... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/25/two-faced-exxon-the-misinformation-campaign-against-its-own-scientists …pic.twitter.com/77Y2kXAcCq
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No, that's the same one again. That 31 million is over 16 years. Friends of the Earth US gets over 10 million/yr
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Good question. People are very suspicious of arguments from interest. My guess, 5c
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I mean the appeal to selfishness in an individual.. the appeal to the easy route. In a general context
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Ah yes, different point. But mine remains; there is a general acceptance of the claims
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