A widely-circulated narrative proposes that scientists who dispute the government’s manmade-global-warming-by-carbon-dioxide claims are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry.
There is a basic logic behind this claim: demand for oil, gas and coal would decrease if government made the products more expensive or regulated. The industry benefits from the spread of information disputing the government’s “carbon-is-causing-warming” narrative.
But no one claims that all scientists who dispute or question the government’s theory are supported by the fossil fuel industry. And no one has EVER CAUGHT any skeptical scientist stating his skepticism is owed to funding.
The opposite, however, is true regarding the promoters of the government’s theory: THE VAST MAJORITY OF PROMINENT SCIENTISTS WHO PUSH THE GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE-SOCIALIST AGENDA ARE FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY A SOURCE THAT DOES HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE DEBATE: GOVERNMENTS.
Now it appears that the professor who initiated the recent demand that climate-skeptics be prosecuted under the RICO Act is himself the beneficiary of vast millions of dollars of governmental support for his alleged scientific research.*
Here is a link to a story indicating that a congressional committee may soon be investigating this alleged scientist’s funding sources.
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* perhaps the word alleged is a bit harsh. But science is skepticism, and the absolute first rule of science is that every hypothesis should invite disputes–not seek to have disputers punished.
