Re: [Phys-l] Money creates truth.

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

Bravo! If anyone has the audacity to question the nearly religious
claims made in reports over the past few days that the "global warming"
measure over the past 50 years has purportedly been entirely human
induced, they certainly are not going to get funding to do research from
the traditional sources. Thank goodness there are these few small grants
still available from those who are not true believers - even if they
have a vested interest in debunking the accepted dogma and articles of
faith of the day.

Bob at PC

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> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet
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>
> SCIENTISTS OFFERED CASH TO CHALLENGE CLIMATE REPORT
>
> IAN SAMPLE, GUARDIAN, UK -  Scientists and economists have been
> offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's
> largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due
> to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise
> Institute an ExxonMobil-funded think tank with close links to the Bush
> administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasize the
> shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change. The AEI has received more than $1.6m from Exxon Mobil
> and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush
> administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of Exxon Mobil, is the
> vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees. The letters, sent to
> scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as
> "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary
> conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask
> for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model
> outputs".
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html
>
> bc
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