I think it's been well established that the fear-mongering and woe-be-us-'n-shit brought upon by the current flavor of "global warming" is due principally to acquiring money.
Mrs E froths at the mouth when I badmouth her precious scientists, but I think even TVDOC would agree that there are unscrupulous scientists out there who insist on bending facts to meet the agenda. The agenda requires the acquisition of money.
Caveat statement: not all scientists are unscrupulous, but those that stick to a predetermined agenda aren't quite as objective as they'd like to think they are.
Sadly Euph, this is very true......."publish or perish" has led many in the sciences to gravitate toward every "hot button" issue that develops that has even the remotest relationship to any scientific discipline.
Research has become an exercise in constantly securing grants for "study". Gone are the days when the vast bulk of research was sponsored largely by private industry, nonpartisan foundations, universities, and other nongovernmental entities.
Basically most (in the US at least) research is either sponsored by direct government grants, or partisan groups attempting to provide academic cover for an agenda, and 99% of the agenda is liberal in nature.
The vast majority of honest scientists do not participate in this, however the minority that do have their voices "amplified" by the ideologues that sponsor them, therefore their "findings" are nearly always out of step with scientific reality. There are many examples other than AGW, which we tend to focus on here.....AIDS research, NASA, NOAA, and particularly the pseudo scientific areas like psychiatry and psychology are rife with ideologically driven grants for research.
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