What difference would it make?

Vested interest.

He could have also invested the money in green technology because, well, he wanted to preserve the climate?

He didn't give his millions earned to climate change scientists.

No one saw my link? It said that carbon dioxide in the thermosphere caused it to reject heat instead of causing another greenhouse effect.

Millions is mere pocket change compared to the money being made in fossil fuels.

The report doesn't actually say that. Nice way to pick some choice things out of context though.

That's probably because the evidence is clear as fucking day. Next to evolution in terms of theories (it really is a law), climate change has the biggest wealth of evidence for it, and the link between it and man is very strong too.

If he really wanted to do something he would invest the money into companies, ideas, and people trying to reduce greenhouse emissions - which he appears to have done.

Global warming having a negative effect on humanity is far from proven, i would call it unlikely.

The effects are actually positive right now - which is to be expected. Areas too cold to farm have gotten warmer. "A fine English wine is no longer a joke." (Can't remember where I heard that). Glaciers and snowpacks are melting at an accelerated rate, creating more drinking water for large swaths of population around the Himalayas.

Unfortunately, as the climate warms, a lot of the mainstay farm land will dry up and become unsuitable due to drought and warmer weather. The glaciers will run out and there will be fresh water shortages in a lot of the most populated countries. Some places, like Bangladesh, will start becoming submerged. More intense weather more often will wreak tons of havoc. That will be in about 40 years.

That will happen. How incredibly drastic it all becomes is still in our hands.

This post was edited by Interesting on May 26 2013 01:28am