Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
By your logic, you wouldn't want to take medicine that had been developed by a pharmaceutical company. After all, they have an inherent conflict.
No, the analogy is: would I want to take a medication that has been approved for use by its manufacturer and no one else.
Scientific findings don''t come with asterisks denoting who paid for the research. Politicized science, different story entirely.
There are easy ways to identify politicized science that is unlikely to hold value:
1) Science about climatology produced by astrophysicists or other non-experts in the field.
2) Scientists from the oil and tobacco industries.
That's why the statists make ridiculous arguments about consensus
The 138 countries of the IPCC claim it exists.
The G-8 countries claim it exists.
NASA claims there's a consensus among scientists.
97% of specialists in the field surveyed agreeing indicates a consensus.
when there is none and attack the background and funding of research that does not support their alarmism. The science behind GW alarmism is tissue thin and cannot stand up to reasoned debate. You are armed with all the talking points, yet you continue to recycle totally discredited notions like the hockey stick and the idea the last ten years or whatever are the hottest on record.
So discredit the "talking points."
When we are paying $10 a gallon for gas and utility bills are $2000/month, I just hope voters recall who was pushing this garbage. Of course, you and the other obama drones will point to the fact that the planet was "saved", ignoring the fact that this tremendous waste of resources had nothing to do with it.
The debate about whether something should be done is a separate argument.