Actually Newsweek just got their wrist slapped because they published an article looking at the big money behind "deniers" while ignoring the money going to the "believe" side.
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Reporter Eve Conant, who interviewed Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, was given all the latest data proving conclusively that it is the proponents of man-made global warming fears that enjoy a monumental funding advantage over the skeptics. (A whopping $50 billion to a paltry $19 million for skeptics — yes, that is billion to million — see below. )
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That's 2632 to 1!
Now ... to back up. I'm not saying all proponents are on the take or that they're dishonest ... far from it. But this discredit anyone that doubts the science thing by linking them to industry is just goofy.
The basis of Science is to question, rethink, adjust, get more informed, alter your hypothesis and continue to revisit the facts.
Words like "the science is in" is dangerous in that it's capping an ongoing issue that isn't finite in any way shape or form.
If global warming is happening, and I'm certainly not saying it's not, then steps should be taken, but those that are sure of it had better open their minds to the fact that it might not be or they may be complicit in moving important focus and funds away from projects that may do inhabitants of Earth a lot more good then a project that may or may not be needed and may or may not actually help.