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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
As far as I am concerned, private companies can send money to anyone they want.
On the other hand, government using my taxpayer money to fund "pro climate-change" fearmongering reports (among other things) is what worries me.
These "scientific studies" that the world is coming to an end is nothing new from the the radical enviro-left (Paul Ehlrich ín the 1968, and others).
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HA HA! Good one!
Wait..... you're NOT kidding?
I guess I'd better respond, in that case.
Firstly, scientific research money comes from a lot of sources. Government agencies, operated independently, are one of those sources, but they are generally careful NOT to influence the outcome of scientific research. Other sources of money include charitable organizations, nonprofit associations, endowed private foundations, private and public post-secondary institutions, usually through endowed awards of some kind, the list goes on. To sum up: don't worry. YOUR tax dollars are not really being used to support science. Some scientists are funded through government dollars, but the cost to you is far less than what your government spends on its own bureaucracy.
Secondly, why would governments have a vested interest in some super-secret leftist apocalyptic agenda to fool tree-huggers into thinking the world is ending? Governments are far more interested in economic prosperity and attracting business--which is why the Bush administration has
ordered climate experts NOT to tell the media what they know about climate change. If anything, some governments have an interest in suppressing the mounting evidence for anthropogenic global warming. Thank god there are a few sane people out there who are willing to look the truth in the face.
Thirdly--which "scientific studies" are claiming the world is coming to an end? No-one purports to understand the full scope of climate change. But people are saying that it's time to pull your head out of the sand and recognize that something will need to be done very soon about this problem. Pretending that science is akin to witchcraft won't help the problem.