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Seaver,
I think your logic about the funding is good, and I buy the sense and fairness of it. The problem I have is that the outcomes are not the same both ways. If global warming is a sham, and the global warm-ers all get rich, that sucks.
If the anti global warming types are wrong, we all die in a flood. (I know that's an overstatement, btw). This wouldn't hold up in court, but I feel like 'everything is fine crowd' should have a higher burden of proof.
I think this is the same reason so many congress people voted for war in Iraq - the consequences of being wrong about WMDs are SO huge it's worth the extra caution. And if it turns out that the global warm-ers are cooking the books to only see that side of it, we should be as pissed as people are about WMDs.
For now, for me, I'm not seeing malfeasance on the side of the Al Gore army. Perhaps they are wrong - but I'd rather err on that side until we know more.
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