Jacqueline, Those climate scientists are probably not driving new sports cars, since = Paul Cherubini has repeatedly explained to this list in the past that = ecologists (if not climate scientists)--generally described by him as = "affluent"--generally live in over-sized houses and drive gas-guzzling = SUV's. I'm sure there are some ecologists who do. Based on that, I = highly respect everything Paul says. I won't even touch on the DDT = topic.
Respectfully where respect is due, Dave Whitacre, apparently one of the few ecologists sans SUV and with a = modestly-sized house 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. This hardly constitutes an economic "windfall." These researchers, who = are engaging in peer-reviewed science, are hardly driving new sports = cars because a couple of institutions have donated money for climate = research. The NSF funding rate for many grants has decreased in recent = years, due to budget cuts by our current administration. Presumably, if = a research project doesn't get funded (and many don't), then the PI = picks a different project. Given that it takes a good ten years of = education before someone's ready to do independent research, I hardly = think today's climate scientists were in the wings a decade or more ago = plotting for ways to bring climate change to the forefront so they'd = have job security. The in funding was brought about by the science, not = the other way around.=20 > 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. I thought that the purpose of applying for federal research dollars was = not to use the funds to "promote" a particular agenda, but to test an = hypothesis?=20 Respectfully, Jacquelyn Gill
