What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?
That's one weather prediction for southern California in the next week. Gary Haupt
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westend wrote:
How does money fit in all of this? It's not like climate scientists are wealthy, usually the opposite. Big Oil, on the other hand, has tremendous resources and uses it all the time to foist their agenda.
Not really going to weigh in on the pro GW vs anti GW rant, but the money doesn't need to get to the end of the line (scientist) in order for people to be concerned about the money trail. There are hundreds of millions (maybe even billions) of dollars every year spent on global warming research. That is a LOT of coin being spent on a controversial subject.
You could ARGUE (again, I'm playing Devil's Advocate here) that there is a large industry with a huge financial interest in global warming research. Continuing to argue human involvement will encourage governments and private liberal investors to keep pouring more money into research, those funding huge projects and ensuring that these research firms are well supplied with capital.
Again... Devil's Advocate. The scientist at the end of the line making $50K a year doesn't mean that there isn't a LOT of money being invested in research.
