"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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There's a perfectly rational explanation for the "overwhelming scientific
consensus": any researcher who dares disagree finds himself without a
pipeline into the grant money gravy train. Scientists have to eat just
like the rest of us.

Perfectly rational? It's absurd.

To believe it, you have to believe that virtually every practicing
geo-scientist in the world is cooking the books

No, you only have to know history. Look up Copernicus, and what happened
when his perfectly rational heliocentric theories ran up against
well-financed, fervent opposition.

Not analogous.

Copernicus was opposed by the Church according to its dogma.

The consensus on AGW grows out of research conducted independently by
thousands of scientists using the modern scientific method.

Again, to believe in your conspiracy theory, you have to believe that
virtually every practicing geo-scientist in the world is cooking the books to
perpetrate a massive hoax.

That is nuts.