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Ah, phew. Let's start polluting again and de-vest in clean energies.

by grayfox 11y ago

reitanqild 11y ago
Na, know you are making a point here but let me jump off and make another point: If you want to brimg the Fox News audience along to reach the goal try talking about conserving oil instead of talking about climate change. A lot of people are deeply sceptical about agw without being neither stupid, paid by big oil nor wanting to destroy this planet. Some of us like me even want to stop using oil faster, -we just think this whole agw thing stinks fish when we see politicians arriving in private jet planes to climate conferences. So again stop trying to sell agw to the fox news crowd and try sell conserve oil (for future generations or to be less dependent on the Saudis or whatever .) (Full disclosure : I work in renewable energy now and has worked in recycling earlier and at some point I worked with communication and radar for oil and gas companies, helping them to save tons of fuel although imo that doesn't matter as it just meant more fuel to sell )
- fooscience 11y ago
  >> If you want to brimg the Fox News audience along >> to the fox news crowd Are you suggesting the Fox news audience are a generalized group of people who care nothing about the planet or the future?
  - reitanqild 11y ago
    Na again. I am rather suggesting that this is what the vast majority of HN and arstchnica.com commenters think.
  - hellofunk 11y ago
    Well Fox News did air a story last year during a major snow blizzard where the newscasters said this was evidence that global warming was not happening... So it's not hard to see why people have this perception of how Fox News deals with stuff like this.
  - thaumaturgy 11y ago
    I'll take the bait. Even if that were what he was suggesting, it wouldn't necessarily be wrong. Fox News is as politically biased as the worst of left-wing media. Part of its bias is that "global warming remediation is bad for business". Emphasizing the continued use of cheap fossil fuels over continued funding for renewable energy R&D is a short-term strategy; it absolutely requires caring more about the now than about the future. There are probably lots of people with similar beliefs who don't watch Fox News, and there are probably lots of Fox News viewers who don't share all the same beliefs, but as a generalization, it's no more wrong than any of the statements you see these days that includes the word "liberals".

Ah, phew. Let's start polluting again and de-vest in clean energies.

by grayfox 11y ago

Ah, phew. Let's start polluting again and de-vest in clean energies.

Na, know you are making a point here but let me jump off and make another point: If you want to brimg the Fox News audience along to reach the goal try talking about conserving oil instead of talking about climate change. A lot of people are deeply sceptical about agw without being neither stupid, paid by big oil nor wanting to destroy this planet. Some of us like me even want to stop using oil faster, -we just think this whole agw thing stinks fish when we see politicians arriving in private jet planes to climate conferences. So again stop trying to sell agw to the fox news crowd and try sell conserve oil (for future generations or to be less dependent on the Saudis or whatever .) (Full disclosure : I work in renewable energy now and has worked in recycling earlier and at some point I worked with communication and radar for oil and gas companies, helping them to save tons of fuel although imo that doesn't matter as it just meant more fuel to sell )

fooscience 11y ago
>> If you want to brimg the Fox News audience along >> to the fox news crowd Are you suggesting the Fox news audience are a generalized group of people who care nothing about the planet or the future?
- reitanqild 11y ago
  Na again. I am rather suggesting that this is what the vast majority of HN and arstchnica.com commenters think.
- hellofunk 11y ago
  Well Fox News did air a story last year during a major snow blizzard where the newscasters said this was evidence that global warming was not happening... So it's not hard to see why people have this perception of how Fox News deals with stuff like this.
- thaumaturgy 11y ago
  I'll take the bait. Even if that were what he was suggesting, it wouldn't necessarily be wrong. Fox News is as politically biased as the worst of left-wing media. Part of its bias is that "global warming remediation is bad for business". Emphasizing the continued use of cheap fossil fuels over continued funding for renewable energy R&D is a short-term strategy; it absolutely requires caring more about the now than about the future. There are probably lots of people with similar beliefs who don't watch Fox News, and there are probably lots of Fox News viewers who don't share all the same beliefs, but as a generalization, it's no more wrong than any of the statements you see these days that includes the word "liberals".