simplestuff: Oh, right.. the top scientists decided to make up irreversible destabilisation of our climate so they could employ one or two more junior researchers... Of course that's why they put their huge brains toward science in the first place rather than becoming investment bankers. It was all for the money and the thrill of scaring everyone into thinking their children are going to suffer!
Science is competitive stuff and a lot of time is spent hacking down other scientists... there is no global conspiracy.
And though it's in many wealthy people's interests to hype it up, one or two emails doesn't bring down decades of scientific consensus.
Decades of scientific consensus you say.
Exactly how may decades are we talking here?
This is from the Archives of the New York Times....
In response to:
SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER; But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change
January 30, 1961, Monday
After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder.
Seems that in 1961 the "scientific consensus" was that the world was cooling.
It's more than likely that in a few years the scientific consensus will change its view again.
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