Gunman At DC Pizza Parlor Was 'Investigating' Right-Wing Conspiracy 'Pizzagate' Lie

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(12-05-2016, 11:42 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.

 
The CLAIM that global warming was a hoax created to make money certainly makes sense once you 1) grant that there are businesses who don't want more environmental regulation imposed upon them, and 2) the voters/politicians they address see profit as the main mover of all people and organizations and are unaware of the motivating values and priorities "research culture" or just find them uninteresting and unworthy of understanding.

So if you are shilling for the extraction industries, you strive to represent scientists and science institutions as out to make a buck just like businessmen and businesses. The only difference is that instead of producing an honest service or product to meet a market demand, climate scientists want the taxpayers to fund them and elite liberal politicians make it happen.

To that science illiterate segment of voters, the "real" motivation behind all these weird scientific claims and graphs becomes clear once they understand how scientists "make money" from taxpayers by claiming that global warming is a serious threat.