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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1119821)	2/23/2019 12:29:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1578245

"We see based on the activities of criminals representing themselves as 'climate scientists' that the politics came first, and the science came second." Actually, the politics didn't show up until climate science was 160 years old. "Here is a small sample of the underlying political agenda:" "We sell carbon. Warming is bad for business. Let's say the theory is wrong."...... In July 1988, on page 11 of Sports Illustrated magazine, one story caught the eye of Fred Palmer. Under the headline “ The Foul, Hot Summer,” the article lamented that year’s scorching heat and drought. “We have only ourselves to blame for this midsummer's nightmare. Burning fossil fuels has created many of these environmental ills,” the story read. Palmer was worried. As the boss of Western Fuels Association (WFA), a co-op of coal power generators and haulers, this self-confessed “prairie populist” could see the writing on the wall for his industry. “There was a nationwide heatwave, and I remember it specifically because it ruined a vacation I was going to have on the eastern shore at Chesapeake Bay. The well waters all went dry,” he said. If governments started to get serious about acting on climate change, then coal plants would be the first in line at the chopping block. “At the time I don’t think people really understood the import of it. But I did understand the import of it. I engaged immediately,” Palmer told DeSmog. And engage he did, helping to form one of the very first fossil fuel–funded campaigns that would directly target the science of climate change in order to influence the public’s understanding. Message 30964189