Move 2: No Such Thing as a Reliable Skeptic
Excerpt from Move 2:
"When I was at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) last summer John Harte, a UC Berkeley professor, said to me, “There is no such thing as a reliable skeptic because a reliable skeptic needs one of two things: evidence that global climate change isn’t happening, or evidence that this is the Earth doing this by itself.” He continued on to explain that no evidence for either of these things existed; therefore, there is no such thing as a reliable skeptic."
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Big Companies Feeding the Climate Denial Fire:
Large businesses whose work effects the climate are often the ones who fund endevors to cover this data up. They try to appeal to their supporters that nothing they're doing is wrong. This group of nonbelievers is reffered to as the Climate Change Denial Machine. The Machine is a network of corporations who lie about climate science and stop policies that would lessen our impact on the earth. One of the biggest companies among this group of companies is Koch Brother's. In 2007, Koch paid scientists to publish a fake study showing that polar bears are uneffected by climate change. Another climate scandal that was found out just in recent years involved the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobile. They are said to havae known about climate change as early as 1981; this is according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this, the firm spent millions of dollars over the next 27 years trying to promote climate denial. A quote from Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University professor who researches the history of climate science, “I find it difficult to believe that an industry whose business model depends on fossil fuels could have been completely ignoring major environmental reports, major environmental meetings taken place in which carbon dioxide and climate change were talked about.” This is how I feel about climate denialists, that they understand its existence, but they don't want to admit to having any responsibility for it.
