The oil and coal execs are making much more than a 70-90K a year climatologist. You`re an easily played sucker for the fossil fuel industry. You think? Ever?
Dude, $90k annually is about what an engineer makes.
CEO of all companies/corporations across the board are making far more than $200k, dude.
roflmao
Exactly. Scientists earn much less than oil company execs.
So who has more of a vested interest in lying to the public?
Remember tobacco company execs lying to Congress in an attempt to undermine how science showed that their products caused harm? Lead company execs also attemted to undermine the science showing the harm their product did.
Who is more credible? Scientists whose work must pass rigorous checks before being published, whose motivations are passion and knowledge instead of money, some of whom are liberal and some of whom are conservative, whose results and conclusions are nearly uniform around the globe despite what kind of government grants them their money, whose results have remained consistent whether there was a liberal or conservative government.
Or, CEOs of oil companies whose products scientists have shown to cause harm, who make more money than any other industry, who are business people and not scientists, and whose stances on AGW are not consistent. Some oil companies publicly accept the science.
Or, politicians whose campaigns are funded by oil companies, who have no scientific education, whose views on this subject must reflect that of their constituents or risk destroying their careers. Who have political motivations, and who may very well be corrupt.
Whose more credible?