Climate change denying noisemakers often erroneously talk about vested interests and following the money trail to find out who is benefitting from the current global scientific consensus about the human causes of Global warming and climate change.
despite their exhortations they never do themselves what they want others to do. Instead they make these silly unfounded assertions that climate scientists are living high on the hog courtesy of massive public funding for their research. They aren’t.
not so long ago, one HC poster asserted that this in total amounted to trillions of dollars, just Because He Said So free of sourcing and referencing. An idiot assertion that merely regurgitates denial cliches.
Some actually do follow the money trail and they find claims about scientists rolling in money are little more than fossil fuel industry propaganda policy repeated tedium ad nauseum by those who deny AGW and climate change.
the following appeared in a Bloomberg Opinion piece dated Dec. 18, 2018 that appeared on medium.com.
”The upstream oil industry alone — not counting refining, natural gas, or coal — rakes in roughly $5–6 billion of revenue a day at current prices. Yet the vested interest here is a bunch of scientists spread around labs and universities? Sure.”
and that’s not counting refining, natural gas or coal.
why do climate change deniers do it to themselves? What is so special about stupid.
