The Wall Street Journal is getting a lot of heat for publishing an op-ed signed by 16 scientists that said global warming is no big deal. The week before, The National Academy of Sciences sent them an essay signed by 255 scientists claiming exactly the opposite. And it was ignored.
I don't claim to understand global warming and what causes it, but one thing I think is ridiculous is the belief that a worldwide cabal of scientists are engaged in a massive conspiracy to create an imaginary crisis, and that only a handful of "brave truth tellers" should be believed. Especially when those "truth tellers" are funded by major oil companies.
Let me put it slightly differently.
What are the motives of those scientists at the National Academy of Sciences? The Wall Street Journal theory is that they obviously created this nonsense so they could secure funding for future studies. On the other hand, they claim that the scientists that have already secured funding from the people who may have their profits cut if we move away from fossil fuels are to be believed because...
Hmmm. Anyone else see a flaw in this logic?
