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Big Business Wants to Put Global Warming on Trial

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(Newser) – Facing broad new US regulations on emissions, big business wants to put the science behind global warming before a judge, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It would be evolution versus creationism,” says an executive for the US Chamber of Commerce, which is pushing the idea of a public hearing. “It would be the science of climate change on trial.”

The Chamber touts the proceeding as “the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century”—though environmentalists note that, in that 1925 case, the science of evolution carried the day over creationism. The Environmental Protection Agency calls the idea a “waste of time,” while one climate scientist scoffed that the plan “brings to mind for me the Salem witch trials, based on myth.” The Chamber threatens a lawsuit if the feds don’t allow the hearing.

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Doctor_Zaius
Aug 25, 09 7:52 PM CDT
Queue the global warming deniers who also happen to be the Birthers the Deathers and the gun toters and the Tea-Baggers. Reply
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Forderon
Aug 25, 09 10:20 PM CDT
I'd gladly let them have a trial on global warming. Just as long as they put God and religion on trial too.
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NewserScooter
Aug 25, 09 10:52 PM CDT
Your certainty belies your ignorance. You haven't read any of the real science. Any of the peer-reviewed journals in Climatology. I think not. This is your religion. I'll stick with real science with real scientist, not politicians with an agenda and pseudoscience opinion.
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Jayster999
Aug 26, 09 2:36 AM CDT
They should put Al Gore on trial. For trying to pull off the biggest swindle ever. Gore established trading companies to capitalize on "cap and trade" eco-credits on both the international and national levels. THEN he went out to sell his chick little sky-is-falling story to the public. If crap and trade passes, Gore will likely surpass Bill Gates in wealth. The man is a traitorous, lying, scheming thief. Many scientists disagree with global warming. Just a few years before Gore's chumps announced global warming they were predicting a global ice age. They actually had to reverse course because the NATURAL weather patten was changing to a warming trend. You fools are willing to impoverish our nation and enrich Gore and his cronies because you are mindless lemmings.
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Stuart
Aug 26, 09 6:55 AM CDT
There is little to the question as far as science goes. Putting it on trial might help the general populace understand the basic nature of Scientific Method which is precisely why Human Caused Global Warming is a theory along with other 'theories' such as evolution, A hypothesis that best meets all the given facts and is peer reviewed and accepted. Just because they may be holes in a theory does not mean another hypothesis becomes a theory. There are holes in Set Theory, but people still use it for every branch of mathmatics. A competing hypothesis would have to be able to exceed the number scope and scale of questions answered by the existing theory to displace it. While people may snipe at Al Gore's economic motive or cite previous environmental cycles, none of those facts or the hypotheses around them fit the current model of climactic activity like the Human Induced Global Warming theory does. I say bring on the trial - unfortunately, we have seen that too many on the right will not believe the science no matter what. They have a political axe to grind and science is merely the millstone.
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