If all this was just a pissing match between two group of scientists, we all could not care less. However, governments all around the globe are going to make huge, impactful decision based on claims of one of these groups (the fact that this group is the one they support financially is just a pure coincidence).
One thing I like to call the Great White Liberal Guilt comes into play here. Bleeding hearts love nothing more than the warm and fuzzy feeling that they are saving the humanity/planet, even if it meant damaging it instead.
Since there are plenty of bleeding hearts with the GWLG, politicans smell votes and are ready to make outlandish promises costing us billions, suffocating industrialization and progress, creating huge "business opportunities" for the selected few in the know such as carbon credit traders, supporting selected few "green initiatives" etc.
Make no mistake, these $$$ are going to end up in someone's pockets. This is no child's game, this is going to be arguably the biggest redistribution of wealth in human history. Crooked science and cooked data leaving intellectual stink, you say? Small price to pay when we've got carbon traders and green businessmen to support.
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