Who on this board receives compensation directly or indirectly from climate research funding of any kind?

I get paid by Big Oil and Big Coal

I don't, although several years ago while I was in school I received money from the state of California for research on energy related issues and from a private philanthropic organization. My income these days is derived from multiple sources--I do work on meteorology in the private sector, as well as work for a company that creates new analytical instruments for the mining sector.

Before returning to school for the Ph.D. I worked for a private company that received federal funds to develop an advanced landmine detector, for several other private companies where I designed electrical components for telecommunications, and another that produced discrete event simulation software.

If anything, I'd say that going into climate research has cost me about $400,000, but that was my choice.

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I work for a university, so it's possible some tiny fraction of my income comes from money that started out as a grant to study climate. But since I work in the chemistry department as a student worker (hence the "chem flunky" name), I doubt my income would change at all if somehow AGW was proven false and/or all research into climate stopped.

I used to, but no longer do. They pay sucks. When I left a research lab to work in the private sector, my salary doubled and my work hours decreased by 1/3.

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jerry --

You must be at the bottom of the information pile because you missed the memo about Exxon-Mobile acknowledging that global warming is real. Of course, it's only a partial truth on their part, but they at least know when a lie is just too stupid to be believable.

Last June, Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson told the Council on Foreign Relations:

"So I'm not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It'll have a warming impact. The -- how large it is is what is very hard for anyone to predict. And depending on how large it is, then projects how dire the consequences are."

http://www.cfr.org/united-states/new-north-america...

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>>Tom A - Why not? Al Gore gets paid for being an idiot, why not me? <<

Let's see: one is a former US Senator and Vice President - and the other is a scientifically illiterate and willfully ignorant liar.

Yeah - tough call on who is the idiot.

I'm sure that if I wanted to get rich, I would at least stand a chance on your best that I could hope for from the "warmer" side would be a Jay-Oh-Bee. Most of the money is going to data acquisition (weather stations and satellites) and teams of technicians. Real science costs real money. But if I had James Hansen' s or Michael Mann's repitation, I would just have to switch to your side and become an instant billionaire.

Pegminer......."worked for a private company that received federal funds to develop an advanced landmine detector"

Impressive....definitely a worthy use of a subsidy!

Prof Wegman does and judging by how he lies about AGW and how many science deniers here lie about it, he simply must have at least one YA profile:

http://www.desmogblog.com/foia-facts-3-more-plagia...

If anyone wishes to compensate me for my skeptical efforts, I will gladly accept any offers and feel free to contact me.

However I wont be holding my breath.

Maxx, you should expect no compensation for being an idiot.