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Originally Posted by VarneyPoint
I've tried to refrain from this debate but I do want to make one point. The people who do climate research have very little to gain from raising awareness on global warming. Do you really think that they are becoming rich off this stuff? Do you think they have a hidden agenda? Do you think climatologists run around saying "global warming is real," because they think it is fun??? The answer is no. A climatologist doesn't get rich by educating people about global warming. He or she doesn't become famous or ink a book deal. Nope, they live a normal, quiet life trying to do their small part, yet they get referred to as "tree huggers" or "liberals" or "whack-jobs," by people who know nothing about science and even less about climatology.
However, the people who vehemently deny that global warming is occuring, do have an agenda. They have a lot to lose in terms of money, power and influence.
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The people who study these issues certainly do have a lot at stake. They have built up a very large industry to push their point of view. Vast amounts of funding is at stake for both research and marketing. If they can't "prove" their point the funding dries up and their jobs go away. There is also a lot of prestige associated with these positions. I don't think they are necessarily dishonest but they are biased and they are certainly not disinterested parties.
The businesses and others that are questioning the global warming theory are asking for reasonable proof that 1) global warming IS happening to a degree that it could be harmful 2) man IS adding significantly to the warming effect 3) proposed changes WOULD BE EFFECTIVE in significantly reducing the warming effect.
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known that the proposed "fixes" would have severe worldwide economic consequences. Yet, as far as I know, no one has produced a climate model that correctly models the changes in climate over the past few decades. The experts are still guessing as to why the changes that they have been able to measure have happened. Once we have a model that has some level of confidence we might be able to project into the future and decide if there really is a problem that we can do something about and if we want to accept the economic impacts that might be required to fix it.