01-21-2017, 06:47 AM
(01-16-2017, 08:22 AM)GMDino Wrote: As an aside I never got that disconnect that somehow all these scientists are just making stuff up to get rich...but the poor, helpless fossil fuel manufacturers are just trying to keep making, uh, record profits? The "hoax" is what you've been led to believe is settled science....why you believe that would depend on what you've read and haven't read.
Yeah. The money is in denial....
Oh, no no no no no.
No one has said scientists are making it up. Some in that community are misrepresenting the certainty and magnitude of the science, but it probably tends to be more the media and government. The "hoax" is what's led you to believe it's good, settled science. How you got there and what you read or didn't read to get there is a different matter.
But if you think the big money is in denial, you are absolutely clueless. Climate change and green energy IS big business. See if you can find the funding behind Climate Change research that supports your above point - what I've seen suggests govt, pro-global AGT research, is well over 100X the dollars coming from fossil fuels. Hard to find good numbers, but globally it's pretty clear govt funded research (which tends to be very one-sided, if not politically motivated) is in the billions while industry is only in the tens of millions.
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