A popular theme among climate denialists claims that researchers are getting rich off of contracts to do research into global warming, and so they skew their data in order to make sure they can get future contracts.
This notion demonstrates an alarming lack of information about how research grants from government and other sources work. Climate researchers aren’t buying big fancy homes and fast cars. They aren’t getting rich off what little research money comes their way — that money goes into research.
Here’s one way to tell: Canadian researchers into the changing conditions in the Arctic can’t get <i>to</i> the Arctic to do their work. Were they getting rich off of grants, this would not happen.
Stories in Nature this week, and most of the stuff is available to the public, free:
J. ENGLANDGetting people and supplies into remote Arctic field sites requires expensive air support. - Nature photo
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Canadian Arctic researchers left out in the cold
The Arctic is one of the fastest-changing landscapes in the world: its glaciers, sea ice and animals are being radically affected by climate change, and the melting environment could in turn have huge impacts on rising temperatures. It is imperative that scientists continue to monitor these conditions. Yet Canadian scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to get out in the field to do their work, says John England in an Opinion piece. This is discussed further in an Editorial and with the author in the Nature Podcast, all free in Nature this week.
Credit: J. England
J. ENGLAND
Getting people and supplies into remote Arctic field sites requires expensive air support.
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of course they derive their livelihoods from it. most people derive their livelihoods from their primary occupation. that doesn’t make them inherently dishonest.
do you also believe that particle physicists are making things up to support their careers? what about astrophysicists? or biochemists, zoologists, and evolutionary biologists?
do you think that programmers put bugs in their code just so they can guarantee themselves a job? that doctors are hiding the cure to cancer just so they can keep on giving people expensive chemotherapy?
if not, why are you singling out climate scientists?
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Oh, yet again with the straw men. No one is saying that they sre getting filthy rich; they are saying that they are deriving their livelihoods out of it.
Grants, positions,influence and perks are what they are getting, and they are getting it out of lies and disinformation.
They are careerists not scientists.
And you really need to stop thinking of the “research community” as some sort of sort of group of holy and innocent saints and priests somehow above it all. They are human beings like the rest of us, and they have their self interest and the same coacity for corruption as the rest of us.
More intellectual dishonesty out of you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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