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Do you trust scientists or lobbyists to get your 'global warming' information?

It seems that some people tend to trust people paid to promote their own causes more than experts in the field who don't have a financial motive behind them.

People claim scientists have a 'government grant' motive, but they can get grants for all sorts of projects, why choose a lie to get funding when there are all sorts of subjects scientists can get funding for. It just doesn't make sense.

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  • 6 years ago

    Those scientists rely entirely on government grants for their funding. If they express skepticism, their funding dries up, no matter what the next project is. Anyway, that's not the whole story. Many of these "scientists" are actually professors on ideological crusades. They have been repeatedly caught manipulating their data, changing records of past temperatures to create the appearance of a warming trend, and publicly making conclusions utterly unsupported by the science. For example, while there is some evidence that temperatures have risen overall since the 1970s, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever tying it to human-generated carbon dioxide.

    And they all call for the same "solutions", which some have even admitted would have no impact: they always advocate tight government control of energy use and higher taxes.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I don't trust either one and I sure as hell do not trust the government that pays the salary of the "scientists" that are pushing the global warming agenda for the politicians.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I trust scientists, including the Pope - a scientist himself!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Scientists, because I'm not a retard.

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  • 6 years ago

    I trust myself. I like to research, and see how often, and why, data changes..etc.. Climate change is not scientific, it's political now.

  • notned
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The bible clearly states that global warming is a liberal plot to overthrow our freedom and take away our guns.

  • 6 years ago

    If they're trying to take my money or freedom, neither.

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