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jbtascam asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 1 decade ago

How many IPCC Scientists and Bureaucrats Lose Their Jobs if Global Warming "Ain't So Bad?"?

Really - if it turns out in 25 years that the Globe has not Warmed Significantly, and that it does, in fact, start to cool or seem stable - how many people does that put out of work?

And how does the fact that their jobs depend on banging the Global Warming drum and having people pay attention affect their bias?

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  • Bob
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Remarkably few, and they'd get other jobs. Mostly staff people at the IPCC office.

    The IPCC scientists generally have successful careers in academia, etc. For most all of them, the IPCC is not a full time job.

    How many classical physicists lost their jobs when quantum mechanics became proven? The analogy is good.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sorry but they will all be changed into Energy Management Consultants. Think about it! Where did the energy crisis go! They have repackaged it into Global Warming. Don't frighten us with the fact that we don't have enough energy production in any developed country to support our increasing demands. Don't tell us that our governments are incompetent fools that couldn't forecast increasing and for the most part unsustainable energy use - and did anything about it. Of any variety! Forget oil, gas, coal. It's about energy. You wait and see!

    Just tell us to save the planet and switch off! Yes of course the planet is warming - we are coming out of an ice age or are in an interglacial period or whatever. They can't even agree on either of those - because they don't know - no-one does! But save the trees, recycle paper and plastic. Have you seen any reduction in production due to recycling! The first thing would be to reduce production of all products that have "carbon footprints" of excessive amounts! I hate that phrase - probably coined in a London wine bar on a Friday afternoon! I rest my point! Even this computer I am told has a carbon footprint - I.e. it uses energy!

  • Larry
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The problem is that politicians and law makers rarely ever repeal taxes. Once they start taking the money, they find reasons to keep taking it. If they decide that GW is not so bad, they will most likely find some new justification to keep taking the money. The Earth will probably cool .5º and we will have a new crisis.

    What is so contradictory is that climatologists understand the climate well enough to make all these 90% likely predictions, but when you talk about reducing funding, they say there is much more to learn.

  • NLBNLB
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Actually not a lot:

    - climatology is a complex science and we are far from mastering all of it. So no problem for climatologists

    - for environmentalists, there are by far enough jobs, only by considering the increased industrial production and energy consunmption

    - people owning capital are flexible and if they don´t invest in green projects can invest in anything else as long as the return on investment is sufficient.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Anyone who tells the Truth about global warming being natural gets fired because they consensus need to be that global warming is a huge problem.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They won't lose jobs. Just big fat UN funded(our tax money) research grants.

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