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Re: Big Oil funds a blog |
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Grant |
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Jul 13, 08 - 12:04 AM |
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gperkc@aol.com |
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I'm puzzled about why a number of people in the north American blog world have become hung up about Mr. Connolley.
He certainly seems to have digital fingers in a lot of pies and to be ultra committed to some views that are clearly deep green - though every now and again such deep greenness seems to fade a little in the light of realities.
Sometimes he backs away from the herd, not necessarily for reasons of contrariness alone. For example I recall from his blog and from a BBC program in which he was interviewed that he had trouble accepting the numbers and proposed outcomes of the Stern report.
Unlike many others who pronounce on environmental matters from a 'me to' political grouping standpoint, I think Mr. Connolley is espousing his personally held beliefs and doing so in the style of and with the independence of a typically British marginal eccentric. Not a full blown eccentric you understand, but someone with enough mental ability and agility to absorb a lot of information on particularly diverse subjects, not all of which are covered by the Seed based blogs. He seems to have more than merely theoretical involvement with the subject matters. I have met a few senior academics with the same breadth of interests (though not necessarily the same subjects of course) and in most cases have gained the impression that one could have a very interesting evening chatting over a couple beers in a local pub even if one disagreed with their views.
Not so some of the other blog pundits, including a number of regular correspondents to Mr. Connolley's blog, who come across as narcissistic hustlers grinding political and personal axes.
As for 'Big Oil' funding - I would imagine that one way or another the Energy companies and their subsidiaries provide much greater funding for warmists than the warmists would care to admit and almost certainly more funding to warmist related causes than to alternative groups.
Bear in mind that Greenpeace, to take a highly visible example, may be vociferously anti nuclear power but that did not stop it forming an investment partnership with nPower/RWE (if memory serves) to build the North Hoyle wind farm. That the partner owned and operated a number of nuclear facilities in Germany could be ignored for the UK. The local plebs were very unlikely to take any notice even if they found out.
But I digress ...
Grant |
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