Posted on 08/26/2011 5:29:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Gore to Rick Perry: Climate scientists aren't motivated by money By Ben Geman - 08/26/11 05:02 PM ET
Al Gore on Friday bashed the notion that climate scientists are manipulating data for financial gain, a charge levied by global warming skeptics, including GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry.
“This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to slander them with the lie that they are making up the science in order to make money,” Gore said in an online interview.
“These scientists don’t make a lot of money. They are comfortable, as they should be, but they don’t make a lot of money. That is not their motivation for doing what they do,” Gore added.
His comments came in a wide-ranging interview with Alex Bogusky, a prominent former advertising executive who is working with Gore on the former vice president’s Climate Reality Project.
Gore didn’t mention Perry by name in the interview, although Bogusky mentioned Perry as part of a broader question about doubt and climate science.
Perry, the Texas governor, attacked climate scientists at a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week. “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data, so that they will have dollars rolling into their, to their projects,” Perry said.
Perry and Gore have a political history that dates back to the 1980s.
Perry was Gore’s Texas state campaign chairman when then-Senator Gore ran for president in 1988. Perry was a Democrat at the time, and later switched his political affiliation to Republican.
Gore broadly attacked what he called an organized campaign by fossil fuel interests to sow doubt about climate change and climate scientists, calling it based on tobacco industry campaigns of the past about the health effects of smoking.
"Millions of people died unnecessarily. They were able to delay action — not by refuting the surgeon general, but by injecting enough doubt so that people would feel 'maybe this isn’t settled yet,'" Gore said. "Now the coal and oil companies are doing exactly the same thing."
The overwhelming view among scientists is that the planet is warming and human activities are a major cause.
Algore is a liar. Without government grants, there would be no “climate scientists”. They’d all have to get real jobs.
Motivated by corporate jets and fast cars.
That’s great news. That should mean millions of dollars in federal and state research grants that can be cut and no one will miss it.
amen.
wonder what the count is on federal grants to academics?
Do government grants count as money?
Well, they do like that totally awesome grant money, but I agree. They're motivated by total, absolute control over every aspect of human life. You know, little things like that.
Ping.
FUAG!
Right Al! And teenage boys aren’t motivated by sex......
“What a maroon” - Bugs Bunny
Had Clinton kept his penis in his pants, Gore wouldn't have gone insane. I'm surprised there's still a handful of people still listening to this mad man.
This was precisely the charge that Gore made to skeptics. During Senate hearings he badgered Lindzen and Idso for getting grants from the oil and gas company in the past.
Ping.
But climate politiians ARE motivated by money!
I wonder why anyone is the least moved by the opinions of a Crazed Sex Poodle. LOL One woman with one phrase completely let the air out of Gorbot. Love it.
A. Algore is nuts.
B. Algore is a liar.
C. Algore is dumb.
D. All of the above.
Me too. LOL!
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