Mike the Usurper wrote:
Well first things first, he's wrong about the grants. People like Exxon give grants too, so that's not right.

You sound like a Republican. :) In the U.S., at least, almost all basic science funding is federal. The argument that Exxon gave out a grant or two as a response to an accusation of bias in terms of federal grant awards is no more reasonable than the argument that California is funding stem cell research as a response to complaints about the federal ban on funding for said research. Let them eat cake?

I don't know much about climate science but I do know a bit about materials, where catch phrases like "nanotechnology" are used to raise money for research projects which, while important, have nothing to do with atomic assembly and machinery, and I also know a bit about quantum physics, where catch phrases like "quantum teleportation" fool politicians who think they are paying for research into star trek transporters. One does not have to be a "Global Warming denier" to conclude that the threat of Global Warming might be used in a misleading way by the atmospheric science community in order to raise money for projects that don't really relate to it. This works regardless of what you are studying or what results your funding sources expect.

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