Major Climate Skeptic Scientist Paid $1.2MM by Big Oil

Is this a surprise to anyone??

It is clear that big corporations are terrible and use their money to push their agenda forward. And since Climate change is the biggest danger for oil companies this is to be expected. This is also why I am also amazed that many climate change deniers actually use the argument that Scientists made it up to get paid.

 

What about all the money the scientists who blame climate change on humans take from the kale industry, hmmm?

I am tired of living under the repressive regime of big kale.

 

From the same article, it is important to also note....

 

the guy sounds pretty smart. he lies and has im assuming plenty of money.

 

Is anyone really surprised that this sort of thng is happening? After all, big business, far too often, cares more about quarterly profits than they do about what their company might be doing to the planet. In my humble opinion.

 

$1.2 million is a small fraction of what Al Gore and other climate profiteers have cashed in on with their hysterical and false predictions.

 

Can we stop calling them "skeptics" and start calling them "deniers" now?

We don't call them "vaccine skeptics" or "holocaust skeptics".

You don't get to hide behind the concept of "skepticism" when something is a proven fact.

 

FIFY.

 

Are you really that lazy? Apparently.

 

I started a thread on this story two weeks ago. Why not add to the discussion there?

 

I think the biggest issue here is conflict of interest. Good scientific researchers won't compromise their research just to gain funding. If this guy wants to prove that CO2 isn't causing climate change, he should do it without funding from oil companies. Of course, Soon is probably receiving even more money under the table, which makes it worthwhile for him to ignore ethical research standards.

Companies need to be more ethical while not compromising profit. I don't think it is naive to say it is possible to accomplish both. In fact, companies that have higher ethical standards usually find themselves doing quite well (e.g. being environmentally friendly and heavily advertising about being green).

Edit: Also adding my post to Cohete Rojo's thread.

 

You are better at dancing around a ring than a rodeo clown

 

Didn't see it! -

 

Why would an oil company fund climate studies if not to discredit climate change? The Pentagon, hardly a bunch of hippies, sees climate change as a national security risk but Exxon is just revealing the truth of climate change as a hoax out of goodwill to society. Mkay.

 

won't trust peer-reviewed consensus of scientists for suspiscion of profiteering from "governement funding"

trusts massive oil and gas industry with trillions of dollars at risk just becasue... america?

i just can't handle this type of reasoning... it literally bottles the mind.

 

lol @ thinking the oil industry is at risk of anything even if draconian global warming legislation gets passed.

When the oil industry is at risk they start wars.

 

I'm just going to post this again.
[rquoter]But the Limbaughs and Hannitys of the world have done a great job convincing Americans that climatologists have entered into this massive, incomprehensible conspiracy to fool the world that there’s a problem. The reason, they say, is that climatologists are doing it for the money, so they can continue to live in their climatologist mansions and drive their climatologist Ferraris. (For the 26 percent who might not get it, that was sarcasm.) Meanwhile, the people who selflessly fight for Americans—the billionaire industrialists and oil-industry magnates—speak only truth because, you know, they have no financial reason to suggest climate change is a fraud. After all, they have dedicated themselves to a modest life so they can advance the truth, residing in their tumble-down, billionaire shacks and driving their billionaire 1994 Chevys. (Once again—sarcasm.)[/rquoter]