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Originally Posted by Ted Pearson  Unfortunately, the deniers do not get the government money; they have to get by with about 1/1000th of that capitol mainly from private contributions. |
you mean apart from the enourmouse injections of cash they get from the oil companies and related interests who have a vested interest in denying that releasing tonnes or carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a bad thing - the total ammount that the gov't invests in climate research each year is less than 0.01% of what saudi arabia takes in one day from oil revenue - go figure.
plus the next largest contributor to CO2 release is building (principally the manufacture of cement and concrete) and that interest group isnt exactly short of a bob or two either.
also - and i know ive said this before -but even if the ipcc are completely wrong about climate change the oil is still going to run out - in most of our life times - and petrol prices will rocket as soon as supply is inadequate for demand which will happen much sooner, plus oil is a vaulable industrial resource and once it becomes scarce will be too precious to be burned - therefore investing in alternative sources of energy is going to be necessary anyway