12-05-2016, 10:04 PM
fredtoast
The only climate change scientists with financial motives are the ones hired by the oil and gas industry.
Ginormously false.
There are huge incentives in green industries, as well as govt, for "research" to justify all kinds of taxes,regulation, control etc over fossil fuels. It's irresponsibly ignorant not to acknowledge the trillion dollar industry climate change has become.
The amount of money going into climate research from the fossil fuel side is like, maybe, 1% of what's coming from govt organizations and other, shall we say, anti-fossil fuel organizations.
It's also a big money machine for universities, and people in climate research (and their entire departments), who's livlihood's depend on it.
Specific grants may not be tied to a "result", but you tend not to get future grants if you aren't "proving" something someone hopes is going to be proven. And if no one was proving or advancing the climate change agenda, then the $100B spent annually or whatever it is on research would just go away.
The only climate change scientists with financial motives are the ones hired by the oil and gas industry.
Ginormously false.
There are huge incentives in green industries, as well as govt, for "research" to justify all kinds of taxes,regulation, control etc over fossil fuels. It's irresponsibly ignorant not to acknowledge the trillion dollar industry climate change has become.
The amount of money going into climate research from the fossil fuel side is like, maybe, 1% of what's coming from govt organizations and other, shall we say, anti-fossil fuel organizations.
It's also a big money machine for universities, and people in climate research (and their entire departments), who's livlihood's depend on it.
Specific grants may not be tied to a "result", but you tend not to get future grants if you aren't "proving" something someone hopes is going to be proven. And if no one was proving or advancing the climate change agenda, then the $100B spent annually or whatever it is on research would just go away.
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