Climate change and scientists Motives

One of the things that is starting to really upset me is this claim that Scientists who are studying climate change and have found evidence that it is happening, for example Rick Perry’s statement, quoted by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial page editor Drew Cline: "A substantial number of scientists [have] manipulated data to keep the money rolling in," and that somehow there is some kind of hoax going on by peer reviewed scientists to perpetuate grant money.


First, I would like to point out that that most research scientists do not make anywhere near what industry scientists make, and they are the ones who are publishing most papers that claim to disprove climate change.

But I think that we need to take a quick thinking break here. If scientists were trying to keep the grant dollars rolling in, surely they would say that they don’t understand climate change yet but that they need more and more money to study it. In fact what is going on is that most scientists say that there is no doubt that the global averaged temperatures have been rising and that it is most likely caused by the release of CO2 from that burning.

I think that it is a lot more revealing that the climate change deniers seem to think that for all scientists, the search for correct theories is driven by the politics and biases of the researchers. Sounds like that is the way they would do science.