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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
i dont think its a bizarre position when the system itself rewards alarmists and the institutions they are associated with.. with grant money to keep studying the same thing. there is no funding for "hey man, all is well, it seems to be part of a normal pattern that we don't fully understand yet"
thats part of the problem in this argument. i can get funding all day long to study why Stellar Sea Lion populations are declining in Alaska... i can't get grant money to study why "Stellar Sea Lions are just A-OK". If i can identify several potential causes of their decline... i can then continue to recieve money to study those causes.
science in most cases, is nothing more than prostitution and its often less than honest, in spite of its reputation.
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Unfortunately, you're wrong.
There is lots of grant money to be gotten by denying global warming. After all, the oil industry does not particularly like the idea of global warming. The only scientific organisation to reject human influence on global warming is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists... that should tell you something.
If you want to see a global conspiracy, you might just as well look at the governments that have censored the findings of environmental scientists reinforcing the idea of global warming.
But who exactly do you want to trust on this issue if you don't want to trust the scientists?