Many interest groups have discovered climate change. Everyone of the will profit from it except the normal consumer. The latter must be maneuvered by propaganda. The scientists profit, they have increased funding by more that a factor of ten since the early 90s.
(From Eli Rabbet's translation of the Die Weltwoche interview)
Fact (U.S. climate science funding) from the blog of R. Pielke Jr.:
From 1995 to 2001:
Climate science funding was cut from $2.234B to $1.886B (constant dollars), representing a cut of 15.6%. With respect to climate science funding as a proportion of domestic discretionary spending the cut is 23%.
From 2002 to 2006:
Climate science funding was cut from $1.792B to $1.674B (constant dollars), representing a cut of 6.6%. With respect to climate science funding as a proportion of domestic discretionary spending the cut is 20%.
So don't let anyone tell you that climate scientists are getting rich off the global warming "scare".
