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Originally Posted by Daddy B
So, that's your answer as to what climatologists have to gain?
Grants - wouldn't those go mainly to pay for research rather than increase their salaries?
Interviews - 
Fame -
And all the scientists who have been warning about global warming have sort of got together in conspiracy to get more and better test tubes, be abused during interviews by that Glenn geezer and be as famous as OJ Simpson?
Can you please tell me on which grassy knoll was this fiendish plot first hatched?! |
Science is all about money. If you are in an art that no one knows about, the funding is slim. Create a crisis, and bam! All kinds of dough. New offices, new labs, new computers, the whole ball of wax. You can even retire from the lab and start a company to help fix the problem that you invented in the first place. Or, sit on the board of directors, even.
Now, money is not unlimited. Governments have to decide who gets what. So, every extra dollar or Euro that goes to climate study means a dollar less for some other area of science (maybe the cure for whatever ails me).