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Professors Paid Off to Deny Climate Change
I think this is a significant story and important:
An undercover sting by Greenpeace has revealed that two prominent climate sceptics were available for hire by the hour to write reports casting doubt on the dangers posed by global warming.
Posing as consultants to fossil fuel companies, Greenpeace approached professors at leading US universities to commission reports touting the benefits of rising carbon dioxide levels and the benefits of coal. The views of both academics are well outside mainstream climate science.
The findings point to how paid-for information challenging the consensus on climate science could be placed into the public domain without the ultimate source of funding being revealed.
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Re: Professors Paid Off to Deny Climate Change
Not surprising.
The entire climate change movement is just an attempt to preserve profit for fossil fuel industries, and to shield big polluters from the costs associated with their pollution.
It has no basis in science. It is economics.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.