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steven787 said:

So 9000 PhD's think global warming is a sham... Do you know how many PhD's are in the U.S. alone? About 2.5 Million.

Do you know how many have PhD's in the sciences? About 1.2 Million.

Do you know how many PhD's work for the oil industry? I don't either, but it's more than 9k.

Oil companies, have nothing to gain, right?

Why don't you read what exxon mobil has to say about climate change?
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_climate_statements.aspx

or
BP:

http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9021743&contentId=7042289

or
Royal Dutch Shell:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/responsible_energy/environment/climate_change/

Oil companies understand, if they don't do something the economy will suffer and they will suffer.

Some political links

Prez W.:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html

McCain:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/da151a1c-733a-4dc1-9cd3-f9ca5caba1de.htm

 

Congratz on ignoring the very point of my post and instead focusing on the least important part, I even explicitly stated such. If you have a point to make on the science then make it, otherwise you're just blowing hot air.

edit: And for the record, you're right that oil companies have lots to gain. Why even Enron was planning to move into Carbon Offset/Credits because they saw it was the new multi-billion dollar industry. So no disagreement there.

edit2: Wow just did some more digging, I might have been wrong about what I said with Enron...it turns out they weren't just getting involved but were the ones who pushed and lobbied for legislation to limit C02 emissions in the US and specifically for a system where credits could be traded (since that is how they planned to make their cash).  Source.

"An internal [Enron] memo said the Kyoto agreement, if implemented, would "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States.""