Quote Originally Posted by Tock View Post
These people are: the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Who are they? According to
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...ence_Coalition
they are " a now defunct industry-funded PR front group run by the APCO Worldwide public relations firm. It worked to hang the label of "junk science" on environmentalists. Created in 1993, TASSC began as a front for Philip Morris which was attempting to discredit ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) research as a long-term cause of increased cancer and heart problem rates in the community -- especially among office workers and children living with smoking parents. [1] It advanced industry-friendly positions on a wide range of topics, including global warming, smoking, phthalates, and pesticides. Later still, they extended the role of TASSC to Europe using Dr. George Carlo. [2]"

This doesn't smell good to me . . . I think this is some pretty slick Bollsheet, and I'm not buying it . . . not from these people, anyway . . .



I'd check out the other sources, but I don't have the time . . .
Unfortunately, the only funding that is going to be available is from "industry". Governments are only granting money to further push AGW so only the private sector, "industry", really is going to have enough interest to fund these things.

Additionally, most environmentalists do practice "junk science". For example, we still have an Ozone layer and my house isn't underwater. The rainforests haven't disappeared (taught they'd be gone by now in middle school) either. Environmentalism = sensational science with an added dose of doomsday preaching.