Funding is a red herring. Powerful interests would love to fund serious climate science that could assure the status quo is fine. If only they could find seriou

Funding is a red herring. Powerful interests would love to fund serious climate science that could assure the status quo is fine. If only they could find serious climate scientists willing to claim that. Fifty years ago, there was no shortage of funding for medical scientists who tried to prove that tobacco didn't cause cancer. (You can guess where that funding came from.)