Obama cranks up the green revolution

Obama cranks up the green revolution

www.independent.co.uk

Barack Obama yesterday promised to end George Bush's "twisting" of science to suit "politics or ideology" in an extraordinarily outspoken address to the nation, and announced that he was putting top climate scientists in key positions in his administration

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Last year Steven Chu sealed a deal between The Berkeley Lab, two public labs, and oil company BP, creating the largest university-industry alliance in US history, the $ 500 million Energy Biosciences Institute to conduct BIOFUELS research. Steven Chu got $500 million BP funds to bankroll Berkeley research. The name of the game is BIOFUELS.

lets see what happens next


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I’ve no doubt that the ‘twisting’ of science will continue. It’ll just be twisted in a different direction now, according to a different ideology.

I’ve heard over the airwaves recently that in order to get the much needed [federal] grants the scientists would have to spin their data and spew the lies to suit the government’s agenda for a cleaner environment. So I am seeing this attempt at green revolution as another ‘scam’ (i.e. global warming) to make businesses (of a free-market system formerly known as capitalism) pay more taxes to clean up their act, so to speak.

[edit on 2008-12-21 by pikypiky]