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Comment by johnnymorgan | Hacker News Reader

It's not the best science available, it's the most politically consumable science , which is different.

If you haven't figured it out yet, it was never about environmentalism.

The claim is basically that hundreds of thousands of people, in thousands of research facilities, in more than a 100 countries are colluding to lie us about the climate. And I presume the governments who are making themselves very unpopular by trying to pass laws to reduce emissions are in on it, too, for some unfathomable reason? And the media! Thousands and thousands of publications are colluding to lie about climate research because it benefits them — how exactly?

The popular mantra is that some some mythical elite is making a lot of money by trying to make the world consume less. Could someone please explain this ingenious mechanism?

Most of the researchers are university students and professors with very small incomes. Research grants? In most cases you barely scrape by even if they get a grant for a year or two. A lot of them have side jobs because otherwise they couldn't pay their bills. Sh*t, I could probably come up with a 100 easier ways to make money than climate research in about 3 minutes.

It's kind of funny that in this day and age the researchers are considered the elite, and not the oil barons in their ivory towers or the politicians they have bought.

It's easy, just fire or cancel anyone's funding and boom, you get consensus.

Also nice way to conflate two different issues, all we are saying is the political engine in play gives zero shits about the environmentalism.

But what would be the motive? As Jon Stewart said: If this was about funding for scientists, the oil and gas companies would have already made it rain in nerd-town.

Governance

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