Tell me again, How do the hoaxers make money off of the Climate change scam?
One James Hansen who is considered the grand father of AGW movement (some credit another), went before Congress and blamed man for his Nazi environmentalist ways. See Hansen is a very Nazi like environmentalist and tried to use science to back up claims. Yet after 40+ tears NO scientific evidence has been put forth.
He was able to get grants, publish several books, do the AGW speaking tour at $150,000 per 30 minutes. And the AGW cult paid it and worshipped him like a god. Many other discovered they could to the same and next thing you know AGW became a cash cow for many "scientists"..
You do know he had to produce creditable results to keep the research grants. Which is based partly on your past record of creditable results (Which is whay the post doctoral is SSSOOOO important for a new Ph.D)
Second, only a few scientist would risk their creditability t scam the public--mainly due to the fact that a life in Academia(with Tenure) is probably the sweetest job a doctor can land(Yes, corporations pay more, but the stressful need to produce makes life miserable for most doctors)
Think about #2 for awhile. This is the point that tends to undermine the scam for cash argument the most!
3rd)Most scientist loves to disprove false theories and ideas! Find the flaw is a quick and fun past time. Proving theories, a lot harder and require some rigorous and critical thinking plus patience in many cases.
If AGW was a boatload of crap, most scientist would have a field day disproving it, like they did with cold fusion! in fact, some scientist would invite a fraudster to present their claims for 2 harsh reasons
a) To display their supreme understanding of a field while laughing at a "Fool". Both forms of the word is used.
b)To warn their student researchers, postdocs and fellow collegues that science is serious business. Your carreer can be destroyed if you make fantastic claims and can't defend yourself.
This tend to suggest that AGW are all false or discredited scientist that has no support from Government agencies or scientif organizations. But they do, which undercuts the argument as well.
In other words, there has to be more than "scientist are making lots of cash" to explain the Hoaxer. There has to be more to it.....
The Emperor has no clothes theory might apply, but that would suggest a lot of scientist are buying into the claims because they are not familiar with the theories of Meteorology. However, that is highly doubtful as well.