N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
What on earth are you talking about? Try earth people logic, so the rest of us can understand too.
No, I've tried earth people logic. Didn't like it. I much prefer space cadet logic.
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Look...here's the way the argument goes from an economic standpoint. The global warming fraud is a Ponzi scheme. There's no actual, unsubsidized product being produced. You can make money in the early going, but it only works for as long as you can continue finding rubes to invest. Ultimately though everybody loses.
I can't see it from the research dollars angle. First of all, head researchers like Phil Jones and whats-his-nuts at NASA get millions in research dollars every year regardless. So saying that they get millions of dollars now because of climate change doesn't tell me much. Secondly, the research funding doesn't go into the researcher's private account. He or she has to account for it. Sure they might be able to finagle some of it their way--trips to fancy conferences, yadda yadda yadda. But it's not like its theirs to do with as they please. And sure you can point to a few guys--like Jones adn Hansen--but for the great majority of researchers, I don't think you'd find that theya re driving Porsches.
When research scientists are making the kind of money that CEOs of large energy companies make, that argument might become more valid.
And finally, the argument discounts the research income for the scientists who are sceptical of AGW. They also get funding.
I think a groupthink mentality among some lead reserachers is probably more to blame than deliberate malfeasance to get more research money.
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The way the "Al Gore is fat" argument goes is he's an icon of global warming hypocrisy. These faux green guys are getting fat while they drive up the price of food and energy for the poor, even starving the people of say Africa by refusing them cheap, functioning energy. At the same time they claim to speak for the poor, and ask the rest of us to tighten our belts, and prepare to make sacrifices.
And what have you done lately for the starving people of Africa?
Al Gore is a politician, so it doesn't surprise me when he acts like one. However there is no relationship bewteen Al Gore's weight and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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