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.
Makes me wonder about the article's title.
HAHAHA I remember that.
“Algore is a liar. Without government grants, there would be no “climate scientists”. They’d all have to get real jobs.”
BTTT
Let’s cut it off and see if that’s true.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2009/05/27/burger-king-calls-global-warming-baloney
Sorry, wrong thread!
Al Gore’s credibility is zero.
I believe algore is truly insane and has been for quite a while I just can't figure out what one thing has to do with the other........
OH my we knew Gore was a liar...now he is a big fat liar...commie thug...
BS!
Fine Al. Then you be the first to give away the multi-millions you made from this scam. Tell me Al, how does a person who never held a job that pays more than $300K a year become a multi-millionaire in a matter of 5 years? $70 mill net worth last I heard. Does the speaking circuit pay that much? Maybe, but I can’t think of anyone who has hired you. Isn’t insider info againt the law?
Can Perry beat Gore in 2012?
They’re motivated by Earth worship and political zealotry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wsiHUb-ULg&feature=feedu
Getting grants is BIG business in academics. The professional career of professors is directly dependent on grants because this is how they can conduct studies, publish and make a name for themselves. DUH!
Quiet a sentiment from a guy who masses a quarter of a billion dollars selling his snake oil.
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