Erstellt am: 19. 9. 2015 - 09:56 Uhr

Today's Webtip: An interesting problem

It turns out at least one oil company suspected fossil fuels have been contributing to climate change for quite some time.

You might have noticed that the climate has been changing. Maybe you have read an article, or felt the effects. And you might think that this change is the result of human activity. Or you might not.

Perhaps you prefer to trust scientists over politicians. Or over corporations. But what do you do with the scientists whose studies are funded by politicians? Or corporations?

That feeling of powerlessness and confusion around the practical problems of the results of technological development is strong. It's behind a lot of peoples repossess to things like GMO's, vaccinations, and global warming.

I bring this up because the issue of global warming has been a tricky one for politicians and voters in the U.S. And that is a tricky problem for the rest of the world because U.S. policy and energy consumption has a massive impact on the rest of us.

That debate might have just gotten a bit more interesting thanks to a series of articles on insideclimatenews.org . According to those articles one major international oil company has been sitting on their own reports that came to the conclusion that fossil energy use has been contributing to climate change. And they have been sitting on them since 1977.

You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here.

If you want to slide down the rabbit hole of who and what and why to not trust or trust when it comes down to things like this, read the comments at Gizmodo. They are probably the best example of just how hard this stuff is to figure out.