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hatrack

(59,387 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:40 AM Jun 2014

Yoo-Hoo! Deniers! Physicist Offers $10,000 To Anyone Who Can Disprove Global Warming

When not refuting the 97 percent of scientists who believe in human-caused global warming, climate change deniers often draw upon the conspiracy that it’s is a fabricated theory invented by those in a position to gain financially or otherwise from efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A Texas-based physicist is turning that notion on its head by offering $10,000 of his own money to anyone who can disprove mainstream, accepted climate science.

Dr. Christopher Keating, a physicist who has taught at the University of South Dakota and the U.S. Naval Academy, says in his blog post that the rules are easy: there is no entry fee, participants must be over 18, and the scientific method must be employed. “Deniers actively claim that science is on their side and there is no proof of man-made climate change,” Keating told the College Fix by email. “You would think that if it was really as easy as the deniers claim that someone, somewhere would do it.”

Keating is planning to post entries on his blog along with comments. He is willing to field a wide array of submissions and is also offering $1,000 to anyone that can provide any scientific evidence at all that climate change isn’t real. “They are even free to find proof on the Internet and cut and paste it,” he said.

Keating is the author of the recent book “Undeniable: Dialogues on Global Warming,” which employs a Socratic-style discussion between three friends over email in a climate change polemic.

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/23/3451810/physicist-offers-climate-denier-reward/

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Yoo-Hoo! Deniers! Physicist Offers $10,000 To Anyone Who Can Disprove Global Warming (Original Post) hatrack Jun 2014 OP
The fossil fuel companies would add at least 4 zeros to that muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #1
Just wait. chrisstopher Jun 2014 #2

muriel_volestrangler

(101,083 posts)
1. The fossil fuel companies would add at least 4 zeros to that
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:52 AM
Jun 2014

They spend many millions each year subsidising people who can't disprove global warming.

chrisstopher

(152 posts)
2. Just wait.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:14 AM
Jun 2014

Some right winger will offer a million dollars to anyone that can disprove the existence of god.

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