| Re: offering cash to dispute UN climate panel: report
"Mark Hickey" <mark@habcycles.com> wrote in message
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> tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote:
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>>But it isn't about the environment, it's about power, control, and
>>wealth.
>
> Couldn't agree more. And that applies at the individual level as well
> - look at the funding spent on pro-global warming, and then contrast
> the money spent on contrarian studies. No contest - you simply can't
> get rich telling people that there's no lurking invisible monster
> about to eat the earth, it seems.
>
That's perceptive. Look at all the weather forecasters making a good living
by trumpeting how bad a weather front is moving in. How two inches of snow
(here in New England, no less!) will cause the Earth to stand still. Gloom
and doom sells.
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