Re: more gw stuff

Eeyore wrote:

So who do you think spends more money to support their side of the argument:
Big Oil (or the industry, in general) to protect their lucrative business,
or Big Government to support the scientific fad of the year?

Big Government by a huge margin.

Why do you think so? Don't climate protection measures (regardless of
necessity or effectiveness) directly cut into Big Oil's business?

All I need to know is that Big Oil doesn't want to hear the truth about
climate change (whatever that truth might turn out to be) because it might
mean that they lose business. It follows from logic that the so-called
research they're having done is nothing but lobbying.

OTOH I can't see why Big Government should have any interest in any
particular outcome of such research, so why should they try to influence it?

All I see is two parties funding research. One party's economic success
hinges partially on the outcome of that research whereas the other party
can't expect success either way because it isn't even a business. Now whose
research has more credibility?

robert
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