Comment by Bucephalus355 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Bucephalus355 | Hacker News Reader

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This kind of research is well documented to be funded by foreign governments. The US Military night very well pollute an extraordinary amount, but such funding will mean we never get the emissions down in other countries and this has to be a global effort.

The House Committee on Natural Resources has already sent several letters [1] to groups like the National Resource Defense Council asking why they have whitepapers on their website significantly praising the Chinese fishing industry, probably the most exploitative fishing operation in the world right now. Also what I thought was interesting was that the NRDF has never filed a single complaint with the Chinese Navy for use of their sonar around whales while filing hundreds against the US Navy.

To be fair though, if I was a foreign government I would be doing this for sure to the US (also I’d push any general policy I thought might be a poor choice long term). Of course the United States almost certainly engages in this behavior too, but we have to acknowledge what is going on here.

[1] https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/05/congress-environmental-gr...

Depends on what you mean by "foreign", it's research done by UK scientists. If you want to play that card, the IPCC itself is funded by "foreign governments", so you can go right ahead and denounce all climate science as a foreign influence operation.

Honestly, I find the continued denial of the climate crisis very depressing (obviously I refer in part to your post Bucephalus355).

IPCC is a governmental lobby indeed that's why governmental reviewers have the final word on what appears in the report (Article 11 of IPCC legal statuses).

Your post confused me. I though you were saying that this report was to be suspicious because is coming from an organization that maybe have ties to China.

But it seems this report have nothing to do with that organization, but with some European universities.

So, what are you saying? that the report is right but 'maybe' it was funded by another country because you don't like it?

Ultimately I doubt it matters very much to OP exactly how you interpret it, as long as you don't think about the climate crisis.

The real question, is why for our very own military industry, we never have studied it. Why did we need others to fund it?

> and this has to be a global effort.

I think we had an agreement in place with just that goal.

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