Quote from: Anon136 on December 19, 2013, 12:29:38 AM

Quote from: cryptasm on December 17, 2013, 08:20:54 PM

rofl and how long do you think their grants would continue if they didn't claim that the sky was falling? they would all be out on their asses out of work in about 5 minutes if they came to the opposite conclusion of what that diagram shows.

I've got an idea, lets create a group of people who's job it is to figure out solutions to help preserve the population of the arctic fox and then lets ask them for an unbiased opinion on whether or not steps ought to be taken to help to preserve the population of arcitic foxes.

no wait i have a better one, lets ask an asprin manufacturer whether he feels that the the supposed health risks surrounding aspirin use are or are not founded.

"Yea well sorry boss it turns out that there is absolutely no risk associated with climate change, now can i please have an increase in funding for my climate research"

Roll Eyes

Climate researchers could be put to useful purposes.

They could be put to studying the effect on the environment of trash in national parks. This would involve picking up all the trash.

They could be put to work studying the dietary habits of polar bears close up. I think to really understand the dietary habits, it would be about right to get 6-36" inches away from them immediately before they start feeding.

Now for the fat dumb and lazy climate researchers who want to sit in front of their computers and not go out in the big vast Gaia, there is the vast polluted Internet, which is globally warming up. It's actually getting positively hot. And this has brought massive virtual pollution in the form of spam.
That is a big job, clearing the spam off the internet. But if you just connect the dots for these guys .... CO2::SPAM .... they'll get it....

Plus, climate researchers should be cheap and easy to hire. No gas allowance, no airflight to conferences, no health care for children (they shouldn't HAVE children of course), one light bulb for every dozen or so of them in their hot, sweaty unairconditioned cubicles...