60 Minutess; Global Warming AGAIN?? - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

Christopher Jordan · 01-21-2008, 01:01 AM

It is so painfully clear that a huge percentage of people will clog roads, burn up millions of gallons of oil- no matter what is on TV. Curious that 60 Minutes brought up the same old glacier melting and polar bears dieing off.

Seemed like a re-run! Sad that we never can agree on transportation. I thought that Global Warming was already supposed to be a big joke- according to half of the US.

countersTrike

SVOboy · 01-21-2008, 01:02 AM

Huh?

What was the program actually about?

Christopher Jordan · 01-21-2008, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by SVOboy

Huh?

What was the program actually about?

I turned on the TV late, but a helicopter was being flown near the north pole, a large part of a glacier was falling into the ocean, a mention of Greenland melting, then showed a polar bear shot with a tranquilizer for study.

Something about man and cars being the cause ; it was just plain weird!

countersTrike

cfg83 · 01-21-2008, 05:21 PM

countersTrike -

I was listening on the radio version maybe a little bit before you. I was hearing the part where the science was being suppressed and/or skewed by the bush administration (i.e. climate reports to Congress being re-written by lawyers to weaken statements related to global warming), but I already knew about that. Science is always politicized to a degree, but it has reached whole new levels these days.

CarloSW2

Christopher Jordan · 01-21-2008, 05:53 PM

Very interesting to me - all of a sudden seeing that made me think that I really *had* found a time warp after all!

countersTrike

WaxyChicken · 01-21-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by cfg83

countersTrike -
I was hearing the part where the science was being suppressed and/or skewed by the bush administration (i.e. climate reports to Congress being re-written by lawyers to weaken statements related to global warming)

^ yeap. when it comes to the eco, i'd rate bush - and all members of his administration (except colon powell ) on a -743.12 of a scale on 1-10.

The question when it comes to the politics is when/how we can find a canidate that actually takes these things serious enough to tell the auto and oil companies to "

off."

mechman600 · 03-09-2010, 05:11 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs

Watch all 9 parts. It's not science until you look at both sides. If it's one sided, it's an agenda and nothing more.

thatguitarguy · 03-09-2010, 06:25 PM

You must have an agenda having dragged this post out of some dark corner of the archives closet.

Science is not about a 2 sided argument. Science is about having a theory and trying to prove it through repetition and experiments that can be duplicated and verified.

I'm not about to watch 90 minutes of political bull$hit. I watched a couple of minutes, and the "scientists" onscreen were repeating the theory about man-made CO2 causing "global warming". Climate change is real and has very many more factors than man-made CO2, but to say anything like the dominant species on this planet doesn't have any effect on the environment is thoroughly ignorant.

I did check out a little bout the film-maker, and on the surface it does seem like he is some kind of conspiracy theory aficionado.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=pascal2407#g/u