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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
I am not blind, and I am not rushing, thank you very much.
The scale of the profits from one day of oil companies completely swamps the "profits" that scientists could come by. I mean, scientists are either at endowed institutions, or they get grants; and they get paid, sure -- but where is the "profits"?
Accusing the scientists of just trying to get rich, is preposterous, and I'm sure they would find it insulting. They are scientists, and they are interested in working on figuring out how nature works, and why things are the way they are. They are not profit-driven. Oil companies, on the other hand are completely profit driven, and they make an immense amount of money.
So on balance, calling GCC a profit driven hoax is nonsensical, and stretches incredulity. It is some vague future profit vs a very real and very present profit making enterprise.
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Who came up with this "hoax"? Who is coordinating it? How does this explain the data? When was global climate change first hypothesized?
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It's nice to see that you have a reading comprehension problem.
It (this hoax) represents a political power grab by the governments. How better to take power away from the masses and concentrate it among the ruling class, than to drum up some AGW scare and claim the only way to combat AGW is to pass horrendously restrictive legislation? That is also how AGW scientists get most of their funding, from governments through grants. If the government is insistent on pushing one side of this AGW debate, then of course they're going to deny research grants to people and institutions that might have questions about AGW.
And I like how you just give a pass to all of the sensational news outlets that just blindly report the pro-AGW side, while deriding the critics (if they happen to be mentioned at all) as loons. No, there's no objective reporting, there. Don't need objective reporting, right? It's settled science, right? Don't even bother to think that these guys might have some large amounts of money invested in companies that might benefit from AGW legislation being passed into law.
Don't you want to make me disappear now?