Ok I understand your point. It seems to me that you are distinguishing between long term and short term consequences. Without getting into an argument about the availability of funding for skeptical global warming research, I will concede the possibility that a climate researcher who is publishing skeptical results may do better in the short term than a parapsychologist who is publishing skeptical results.
More than that: a fully credentialed climate researcher who is prepared to back the position of an organisation like the CEI can line their own pockets far more effectively than one who backs the scientific consensus. You’d be celebrated in many quarters as the world’s leading authority on the subject, you’d get speaking engagements aplenty, lots of media attention, and more. It’s an extraordinary testament to personal integrity that so few go for it—as I say, I know of none who have.
Ok I understand your point. It seems to me that you are distinguishing between long term and short term consequences. Without getting into an argument about the availability of funding for skeptical global warming research, I will concede the possibility that a climate researcher who is publishing skeptical results may do better in the short term than a parapsychologist who is publishing skeptical results.
More than that: a fully credentialed climate researcher who is prepared to back the position of an organisation like the CEI can line their own pockets far more effectively than one who backs the scientific consensus. You’d be celebrated in many quarters as the world’s leading authority on the subject, you’d get speaking engagements aplenty, lots of media attention, and more. It’s an extraordinary testament to personal integrity that so few go for it—as I say, I know of none who have.
I’m not sure I’d go that far. I don’t know who CEI is, but Bob Carter, John Christy ,and Richard Lindzen don’t seem to be drowning in oil money.
CEI.