[Katatonic]

(11-22-2013 08:41 PM)Sharkie Wrote:  

Two words - Research Grants.

One just has to look at the oligopsony that climatologists had to contend with when presenting their cases to Congress for federal funding. If they were to emphasize the likely scenario of mans impact on warming and cooling trends, a good portion of that money may very well have been allocated to a different agenda. By presenting the best, likely, and worst case scenarios, but putting an extra emphasis on the worst case scenario they were able to secure massive amounts of funding for the foreseeable future.

Add to that the demagogue Al Gore's propaganda film, which was made solely to promote Cap-and-Trade as good and necessary public policy, and climatology might not be too bad of a career to pursue(provided you toe the line). Damn that boy would have made billions had his scheme to leech off of the productive side of society been successful.