If a scientist could produce results that invalidated global warming (or germ theory or quantum mechanics or thermodynamics or general relativity or any other established theory) they would jump at the chance — it would be the opportunity of a hundred lifetimes, the kind of thing that wins Nobel prizes and makes you immortalized. Any one of the top hundred or so climate scientists could easily triple their salaries by selling out to the fossil fuel industry and peddling lies for them. The fact that so few do is a testament to a general propensity for honesty among scientists and to the institutional strength of science in weeding out liars. It is very, very, very, very hard to publish lies about nature when anyone, anywhere, with any agenda can replicate your experiments and reveal your deception. Random part of a comment I saw online, and liked very much.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:00:14 +0000
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