As the walls of global warming's cathedral begin to crack, journalists are finding new objects of outrage in the leaked emails.
On scientists and green lobbyists:
they depend on an inherently corrupting premise, namely that the hypothesis on which their livelihood depends has in fact been proved. Absent that proof, everything they represent—including the thousands of jobs they provide—vanishes. This is what's known as a vested interest, and vested interests are an enemy of sound science.
Bret Stephens makes a good point: the tiny amount of money "big oil" provided to skeptic researchers last year – a few million dollars in total – is a fraction of the US$94 billion in taxpayer funded largesse for climate change scientists and green lobby groups and alternative energy subsidies over the same period.
The media need to stop trusting "authority figures" and instead look at their financial interests in climate research. NIWA in New Zealand, for example, gained extra budget for climate research. That's more money, more jobs, more power for NIWA's management, as well as more prestige.
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