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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

Millionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel seen in the National Press Club in Washington on March. 31, 2016.Image: Lo Scalzo/Environmental protection agency/REX/Shutterstock Climatic change is really a subject that is affected with “groupthink,” and cries out to have an “open...

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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

Millionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel seen in the National Press Club in Washington on March. 31, 2016.Image: Lo Scalzo/Environmental protection agency/REX/Shutterstock Climatic change is really a subject that is affected with “groupthink,” and cries out to have an “open...

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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

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Facebook board member says fracking is better invention than anything from Silicon Valley

Millionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel seen in the National Press Club in Washington on March. 31, 2016.

Image: Lo Scalzo/Environmental protection agency/REX/Shutterstock

Climatic change is really a subject that is affected with “groupthink,” and cries out to have an “open debate” among scientists. Oh, and in addition it may not be real.

This really is all of this based on Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member and influential consultant to President Jesse Trump.

Speaking on Tuesday in a prominent energy industry conference in Houston, Thiel stated he’s skeptical of mainstream climate science which has proven our planet is warming mainly because of human activities, like the burning of non-renewable fuels for energy.

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“I’m not sure whether I’m a serious skeptic on global warming, however i have my doubts concerning the extreme ways in which people attempt to push it through,” Thiel stated, based on reporting from Ben Geman of Axios in addition to a recording from the session.

“I’d state that I’d be more convinced of global warming, of the necessity to make a move, basically thought there is a far more open debate by which each side received a complete hearing,” he added.

“And it is entirely possible that even when global warming is very badly as people express it is, that perhaps we misdiagnosed the issue, it can be all methane emissions,” he stated, based on a recording from the session. This means that efforts to manage co2 emissions might be a mistake.

Global surface temperature departures from average for 2016.

Image: nasa giss

Regrettably for Thiel, it is not how science works. With regards to climatic change, there’s no credible other part to argue with given the possible lack of evidence showing that modern climatic change is a result of anything apart from rising levels of green house gases within the atmosphere because of human activities.

The scientific community has investigated and debated human-caused climatic change because the late 1700s, with without any credible studies printed lately showing that climatic change trends are impelled by anything apart from green house gas emissions.

This past year was the planet’s warmest on record, beating the previous 2 yrs for that title.

Thiel’s view adheres carefully to that particular of numerous Trump administration officials, with Ecological Protection Agency (Environmental protection agency) Administrator Scott Pruitt also with a far more open debate of lengthy-settled climate science findings.

Rather of debating whether human-caused climatic change is really a reality, the weather science community is commonly divided among individuals who believe there’s still time for you to steer clear of the worst-situation scenarios from the rapid lack of ice sheets and extreme weather occasions, and individuals who think we’re past the purpose of no return.

Throughout his conference appearance, Thiel also extolled the benefits of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” that has helped create a glut of gas supplies within the U.S. while raising water and air pollution concerns.

The questionable gas and oil drilling manner of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” would be a more consequential innovation than anything Plastic Valley has been doing, Thiel stated.

“What’s very striking is the fact that on some level I believe fracking represents a larger economic type of progress for the society in general compared to innovation in Plastic Valley.”

Certainly one of Pruitt’s first moves in the Environmental protection agency is to steer clear of the rule-making process on rules that will limit methane emissions from fracking along with other gas and oil drilling operations.

Secretary of Condition Rex Tillerson, who until The month of january was the Chief executive officer of oil giant Exxon Mobil, has additionally said he doubts that green house gases would be the primary reason the globe’s climate is quickly growing.

Trump themself has known as human-caused climatic change a “hoax,” and the administration is relocating to slash funding for climate science research and programs targeted at reducing green house gas emissions like co2 and methane.

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Find out more: http://mashable.com/2017/03/08/facebook-board-thiel-fracking-global-warming-denier/

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The Fossil Fuel Industry is Rotten to the Core

Exxon is a corporate devil but it is not alone in its demonic subterfuge. Exxon is being investigated for criminal wrongdoings and some other fossil fuel companies are also coming under legal scrutiny.

In November, a criminal investigation was launched into Exxon and a month later, many other fossil fuel industry CEO’s were formally asked to clarify what they knew about the relationship between…

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Exxon's Crimes Against Humanity

Exxon’s Crimes Against Humanity

It is now public knowledge that Exxon has known for decades that their core business is directly responsible for climate change. Even more damning is the fact that they covered up this knowledge. To make matters even worse, they actively participated and funded a sophisticated campaign to fuel climate denial and delay climate action as long as they could.

As reviewed by InsideClimate News, an 8…

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Academics on the Take: Mounting Evidence of Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial

Academics on the Take: Mounting Evidence of Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial

Greenpeace revealed today the results of an undercover investigation showing how fossil fuel companies secretly pay academics from leading U.S. universities “to write research that sows doubt about climate science and promotes the companies’ commercial interests,” reported Lawrence Carter and Meave McClenaghan on EnergyDesk Greenpeace today.

Reporters from Greenpeace UK posing as representative…

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Polls Suggest that US Climate Denial is Dying

Polls Suggest that US Climate Denial is Dying

Over the course of recent years, polls that examine American attitudes on global warming suggest that climate denial may be dying. It would appear that Americans have gone through the five stages in what has been called the cycle of climate acceptance.  This is an adaptation of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ seminal work, “On Death and Dying.”The first step is denial, followed by anger, depression,…

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