All posts tagged "Climate Scientists"

Climate scientists said Wednesday they found evidence to back predictions for a future with lower average rainfall, even though Earth's past warming episodes had led to more precipitation, not less.

Speaking to a crowd in Philadelphia yesterday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) suddenly changed his position on whether humans contribute to climate change, insisting that "we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet."

By Marlowe Hood

[rebelmouse-image 24749411 original_size="325x215" expand=1]In my new book Get Opinionated, I discuss something I learned while "debating" a right wing relative, which is that one of the talking points that's floating out there in the right wing noise machine is that scientists who study the climate---and therefore climate change---are the real money-grubbing assholes who'll do anything for a buck. The oil and coal industries are, of course, nothing but concerned citizens who are indifferent to profit, which is why the entire global warming denialist movement is funded by them. (I won't give any more away; read the book for a fuller discussion of how to push back against these blatantly bad arguments.) The evidence for why climate scientists are nothing but liars who are in it for the money? The fact that scientists get research grants to do research. Yep, that's the basis of the entire argument.