Like corrupt jurors wrongfully deciding a case, so-called climate scientists have sold their professional ethics for a mess of pottage.
Carnegie-Mellon Professor Tom Emerson emailed this link regarding The Economics of Climate Change.
See also Bret Stephens’s essay on Climategate: Follow the Money.
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None of these outfits is per se corrupt, in the sense that the monies they get are spent on something other than their intended purposes. But they depend on an inherently corrupting premise, namely that the hypothesis on which their livelihood depends has in fact been proved. Absent that proof, everything they represent—including the thousands of jobs they provide—vanishes. This is what’s known as a vested interest, and vested interests are an enemy of sound science.
...In one of the more telling disclosures from last week, a computer programmer writes of the CRU’s temperature database: “I am very sorry to report that the rest of the databases seems to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. . . . Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight. . . . We can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!"
If these climate propagandists were medical researchers, they would be accepting payments from suppliers of leeches to testify to the beneficial effects of blood-letting to cure disease.
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