12-05-2016, 11:42 PM
(12-05-2016, 10:04 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: 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.
None of this theory makes any sense to me.
Politicians know that they only stay in power if people are happy and a good economy is the best way to keep people happy. These politicians have a huge industry in place that employs a lot of people and provides cheap energy. So why the hell would they decide to tear down a productive industry and replace it with a less efficient industry that requires taxing the people to pay for more expensive energy that will drag down the entire economy?
I have never seen any logic in the claim that global warming was a hoax created to make money. They had no need to create a hoax to make money because they already had an industry in place that made money MORE EFFICIENTLY than alternative energy sources.
Green energy will hurt the economy and cause taxes to rise. People will not like this. politicians don't create hoaxes to lose money and make citizens mad. That makes no sense at all.
