Whoever UT Austin is, he or she must obviously be bought and paid for by industry spokepeople!
Because you insist on a childlike naivete, let me break this down for you:
1) There are many places in the united states with contaminated groundwater.
2) Some of these places are not contaminated from fraking
3) Some scientists make reports such places. These scientists may be neutral or may even be ideological but the results are the same.
4) Some paid advocates take those reports and loudly trumpet those claims beyond the context of the reports themselves. In this case 'Charles “Chip” Groat', a paid industry spokesperson. He receives a paycheck to do exactly this.
5) A "news story" gets written consisting of nothing but quotes from this paid industry advocate
6) Credulous individuals, commonly refereed to as "Dupes" take this as a neutral scientific opinion rather then a paid spokesperson doing his job.
This process should be familiar to any adult or a halfway world wise minor. Yet you have insisted on ignoring it when it is called to your attention. Instead you have repeatedly mocked me, characterizing me as believing in shadowy conspiracies despite me repeatedly explaining my views. These views are entirely free of conspiracies and instead depend on publicly known people doing their publicly known jobs exactly the way their job description lays out.
You are being deliberately obtuse to the point of insult. You have no interest in even acknowledging, let alone engaging my views. You are wearing blinders to the point of insisting that I am saying the exact opposite of what I am saying even after I clarified for you.
Why do you assume I am mocking you? Oh crap, I suppose by taking a sarcastic tone I am automatically attacking you. I mean, really, you immediately call me out for mocking you, while at the same time show no restraint in your attempt to mock me. At least try and keep up the game of verbal sparring before resorting to crying about it.
I am asserting your belief that the sources I provide are somehow "bought and paid for" while your sources are 100% completely legit. The arguments from you to back this up amount to simply "because I say so", "I know how the world works and you obviously don't." Because, if you break it down, it doesn't matter what issue you pick, statistics, facts and data are going to be skewed by politicians and influential people to get the government to do what they want. Why do you think there is all this controversy over Global Warming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy"Many climate scientists state that they are put under enormous pressure to distort or hide any scientific results which suggest that human activity is to blame for global warming."
And no, this is not de-railing anything because the whole overarching issue with Global Warming is at the crux of what is driving these issues in the first place.
"In the U.S. global warming is often a partisan political issue. Republicans tend to oppose action against a threat that they regard as unproven, while Democrats tend to support actions that they believe will reduce global warming and its effects through the control of greenhouse gas emissions."
Fracking and drilling in general leads to "global warming". The current administration, which has been Democrat for the past 3 years, is in power, and taking the above statement.. "Many climate scientists state that they are put under enormous pressure to distort or hide any scientific results which suggest that human activity is to blame for global warming." Their current stance through the EPA is essentially "No drilling." So, again, how are your sources 100% untainted and mine mysteriously are?
I won't be responding for around 8 hours, sleep and all, so don't take my non-response as a negative gesture towards you.