Actually, most of the $100 million of the HSBC climate change money is for long-term conservation projects, not research per se. HSBC is not setting itself up along the lines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the NSF but filling in a genuine gap for work on restoration, remediation, planning, and adaptation.
On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Paul Cherubini wrote: > Wil Burns wrote: > >> 1. If you want to cash in on climate change, you'd actually >> be a skeptic. There's way too many people competing for >> university and foundation grants if you support this >> "radical" thesis. By contrast, if you want to be a >> skeptic, there's an array of corporate-fronted foundations >> that will bestow cash on you, so your thesis is internally illogical; > > I agree many scientists today - probably thousands - are > competing for many hundreds of millions of dollars worth of newly > available climate change grant money. And that's my point - that > climate change has been a recent a financial windfall for > the catastrophic man-made global warming camp of scientists. > Here are just are few of many available examples of the > kind of money being allocated: > > HSBC To Donate $100 Million For Climate Research > http://tinyurl.com/37n9kj > > $9 million to fund climate research > http://daily.stanford.edu/article/ > 2005/2/16/9MillionToFundClimateResearch > > By contrast, there are only a relatively small numbers of > scientists who > make their living (via corporate-fronted foundations) promoting the > idea that the causes of global warming are not mostly man made > or that nothing can be done that will effectively delay warming > by more than a few years. > > But to get back to Maiken Winter's original questions: > >> How much more evidence do we need? Why is there such an incredible >> resistance among scientists to get active? > > I would suggest Maiken take a look at this US Senate Committee > Minority > page website http://tinyurl.com/36jyvw that provides detailed > information > on the views of 12 prominent scientists who used to be members of the > catastrophic man-made global warming camp and are now skeptics. > > Paul Cherubini > El Dorado, Calif.
