Debunking: “Climate Scientists LIE For Grant Money!”
Deniers of manmade global warming claim that we can’t trust climatologists because they lie for grant money. This claim is ridiculous for many reasons. Number one, climate scientists make very little money. Most grant money also gets spent *doing research*—it doesn’t just get pocketed. The funding doesn’t produce the consensus; the consensus produces the funding—and there’s no reason the data collected in this research couldn’t disprove AGW. The fact that it doesn’t isn’t proof of conspiracy; it’s proof that deniers are wrong about the science! They don’t make this argument about other fields because they work backwards from their conclusion, and the evidence cited as proof of these “lies” simply doesn’t show what they think it does.
