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Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology, Western Washington
University, author of 8 books, 150 journal publications with focus on
geomorphology; glacial geology; Pleistocene geochronology; environmental
and engineering geology.
CBS-TV, 60 Minutes, Burlington, Washington
March 30, 2008
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/DonEasterbrookInterviewTranscript.pdf
DJE: Do you know what drives them? Money.
KLC: You're talking about research grant money?
DJE: I'm talking about money, period. Before he started all this, Al
Gore was reported to be worth a few million dollars. Now he is reported
to be worth 100 million dollars and is reported to have a slush fund of
about five billion dollars. If you're in the press and you want to
attend one of his lectures, you can't. Not only can you not ask
questions, they won't let you in. Because the debate is over, you see.
You'd just be a troublemaker. You know about the Bali-100? [A letter
disputing the findings of the IPCC sent to the UN Secretary-General and
signed by 100 scientists]
KLC: Yes.
DJE: You know about the 400 consensus breakers? [400 scientists voicing
objections to so-called "consensus" on human-caused global warming.
These scientists are listed in a report issued by Sen. James Inhofe,
R-Okla, who is on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee]
KLC: Yes.
DJE: There's a new one called the Manhattan Declaration. [The Manhattan
Declaration comes from the 2008 International Conference on Climate
Change and suggests world leaders reject views expressed by the IPCC and
that all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce
emissions of CO2 be abandoned]
KLC: Don, you know they're all in the pocket of big-oil. They believe in
a flat earth.
DJE: I get so much Bush oil money that I'm embarrassed to go to the
bank. I push a wheelbarrow.
KLC: I note you're carrying a Conoco-Phillips bag.
DJE: So I am. It's from a GSA meeting. It also has Halliburton on it.
For the record, I've never taken a nickel from any industry. It's the
first thing interviewers ask. I'm making a lot of new friends to the
right of political center because they love what I have to say. The
thing they love most is that I've never taken a nickel from industry and
I'm not a Republican, so I must be pure of heart.
KLC: It's too bad it has to be so political. I'm just interested in the
science.
DJE: Al Gore makes a hundred-million dollars? He has five-billion in his
slush fund? Look at [U.S. Senator] Barbara Boxer, she sponsored a bill
for carbon cap and trade [Sanders/Boxer Global Warming Bill S.309]. Who
will benefit from hundreds of billions of dollars for administering a
scheme like that?
The other thing is research funding. The U.S. spends about two-billion
dollars a year on research. Right now, if you submit anything that says
CO2 is not the bad guy, you won't have a chance of getting funding. It
all goes to the CO2 people who build little fiefdoms; they have grant
money coming out of their ears. They mimic Al Gore and say the debate is
over. The last I heard, the U.S. plans to increase its research spending
to 3.5 billion dollars, virtually all of which goes into CO2 research.
The last part of this equation is the news media and money being made by
people like National Geographic who recently put out a show called Six
Degrees of Global Warming [Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet,
by Mark Lynas] and how many people watched that and watched the ads that
went with it? How much money did they make doing it? How much money
would they have made if they'd said 'Oh, it's not CO2, it's solar?' Doom
and gloom is easy to sell. Herman Goebbels said in World War II, and
said it right, that if you tell a big enough lie often enough, people
will eventually believe it.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"From 1870 to 1900, we had global cooling, then we had significant
global warming from about 1910 to 1945. That global warming is not
accompanied by any significant rise in CO2, so you can't blame CO2. Then
CO2 increased while we had global cooling. You can't blame that on CO2.
It's only been the last 30 years there's been correlation between CO2
and global warming" Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology,
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