Yes, this is to be taken seriously. You, however, are a climate change and science denialist. Not allowed on this site. Don’t come back.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center
Johns Hopkins University
Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Kansas State University
Kansas-based artists and musicians
PBS
Deerfield Academy
American Ballet Theater
New York City Ballet
Lincoln Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
and the list goes on.

Would you have an article called “Koch funded museum supports the theory of human evolution” or “Koch funded university actually does cancer research” and expect to be taken seriously?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/

Even though putting CO2 into the atmosphere is “free”, it does result in costs. The drought and heat wave that has destroyed this years corn crop is due in part to AGW. The effects of that extreme weather event are going to ripple down to corn farmers, corn purchasers, corn consumers and eventually to every kind of food that has a corn-based ingredient in it, Then there will be follow-on effects on every type of food that can be substituted for a corn-derived product. That is everything.

Everyone is going to have to pay for higher food prices as a result of this extreme weather event. Are the Kochs going to have to pay for higher food prices too? Yes, but the profits they made because the externality of putting CO2 in the atmosphere is way more than what they will have to pay for food.

As bad as the AGW denialism that the Kochs are pushing is, I think the faux-Libertarian political posturing is more dangerous. The only reason there is AGW is because the externality of putting CO2 in the atmosphere is not accounted for in the cost of fossil fuel consumption. Real and intellectually honest Libertarians are willing to pay their way and not cheat and steal from everyone else by having externalities that are not fairly priced. The Kochs are not real Libertarians, they are fascists, looting the commons along with the other Republicans.

The Kochs have pledged to spend $400 million to get Romney elected. Romney’s plan is to cut taxes for the wealthy, cut spending on social programs, and increase defense spending by $2 trillion.

They don’t care about trivialities like “morality”. They follow the golden rule, they have the gold, so they make the rules. They don’t care how many people die because of extreme weather, because of flooding, because of starvation. It is exactly the same as the coal mine operators not caring about the miners getting black lung, or the weapons manufacturers caring about the civilians their wars of convenience cause.

Republicans are shorting US Treasuries and then blocking the raising of the US debt limit to drive the value of US Treasuries down. Why? Because they can, and to them, government is just another way to get money.

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Electricity is kinda portable, and with electric cars in widespread use that there are suddenly 50 million or so batteries to hook up to the Smart Grid. They way I rekon it, if 80% of cars were electric, five times more people took (energy efficent) mass transit than currently take mass transit, 30% of the population moved to within 10% of the distance they now commute to work, the Smart Grid were implemented, geothermal was maxed out and we committed to growing 40% of our food by calories in energy efficient low-chemical use green houses and built a large number of highly efficient solar plants and a shitload of windmills, we could actually start pumping carbon INTO rather than OUT OF the ground.

If 90% of the materials by bulk to do this were made in the US by union labor we’d have a kick-ass economy, a clean society, effectively no unemployment.

But every one of those proposals would be opposed by about 55% of the people because they are idiots, er, I mean, Republicans or Teabaggers.

The above numbers are approximate.

But it’s very unclear if geo will actually work well enough to have large scale viability.

srp (Comment #100202)

“He’s [Watts] discovered the satellite records of the ancient astronauts. Complete global coverage of temperature starting from the time of the pyramids. Next step is for Mosher to push von Daniken to archive his data properly.”