Paul says: "There's a lot more money to be made by saying the world is coming to an end than to say that this is a bunch of hooey."
Common sense says: "There's a lot more money to be saved by taking measures to counter man-induced global warming emissions and then being wrong about climate change in comparison to the amount of money (and lives) that would be lost if we say this is a bunch of hooey, doing nothing, and then being wrong." Warren W. Aney Tigard, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Houlahan, Jeff Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:51 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: Scientists versus activists Hi Paul and all. These are an odd set of statements from two tenured and well-funded skeptics of human-induced global warming. Jeff > Val Smith wrote: > > > The term windfall has built-in negative connotations > > that could potentially be taken to imply that some of us are out > > there waiting to "exploit" this real-world problem, and thus are > > indulging in some kind of ecoprostitution. I take very strong issue > > with such an assertion, if that was the intent. > > Here is what some climate scientists themselves have say: > http://tinyurl.com/27eozg > > David Legates, Delaware state climatologist: > "There's a lot more money to be made by saying the world > is coming to an end than to say that this is a bunch of hooey." > > Reid Bryson: "If you want to be an eminent scientist, you > have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You > can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, > carbon dioxide.'" > > Legates tells students who are not global-warming true believers, > "If you don't have tenure at a major research university, keep > your mouth shut." > > Paul Cherubini > El Dorado, Calif. > > Jeff Houlahan Dept of Biology University of New Brunswick Saint John PO Box 5050 Saint John New Brunswick E2L 4L5 Canada telephone (office): (506) 648-5967 telephone (department): (506) 648 -5565 fax: (506) 648-5811 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
