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Re: [Phys-l] Money creates truth.



I would hope that *everyone* who does climate research is questioning it
-- otherwise there wouldn't be a need to do the research. "Scientists"
shouldn't seek funding that is contingent upon finding a *particular*
answer.

As such, I am disappointed to hear (see below) that "traditional"
sources will no longer fund research unless it supports the view that
global warming is "entirely human induced". I wasn't aware that was the
case.

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Robert A. Cohen, Department of Physics, East Stroudsburg University
570.422.3428 rcohen@po-box.esu.edu http://www.esu.edu/~bbq

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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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Subject: [Phys-l] Money creates truth.


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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