Scientists are Afraid to Debate Global Warming for Fear of Losing Federal Grants

 Seventy global warming skeptics are going to speak at the International Conference on Climate Change next month.

  It seems like every time I write about my global warming skepticism I get somebody who comments here that I am ignoring the facts about global warming. The last post that I wrote about this issue a commenter echoed Al Gore and told me that global warming is a fact and that there isn’t even a debate any more. This is not true. There is debate, there is nothing wrong with debate. There is something wrong however with people who try to shut down debate. It is funny how the only people who claim the global warming debate is over are people who believe it is true. There are plenty of people, including scientists, out there who believe that it is not true.

 So I sit here now and I have found yet another article that debates global warming, this time 70 people are going to speak about global warming skepticism and they reiterate a couple of points that I have been trying to make here for quite some time.

 Harrison Schmitt, a former astronaut and current global warming skeptic believes, as do I, that scientists are being bullied into publicly supporting the global warming scam.

They’ve seen too many of their colleagues lose grant funding when they haven’t gone along with the so-called political consensus that we’re in a human-caused global warming

 This echoes a point that I have made in the past. Scientists are federally funded through grants and if they wish to keep the grant money coming in they have to tow the company line. Considering the federal government stands to make billions of dollars off of this scam they have a considerable reason to intimidate scientists with the threat of lost funding if they don’t aquise to the notion of man-made global warming. Millions of dollars in grant money is a pittance compared to the billions the government stands to make. 

  Schmitt then seconds another of my positions on global warming with the following statement:

global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

 Exactly, these politicians see a chance with this politically correct issue to take advantage of people’s sensitive side, after all nobody wants to destroy the planet. The politicians play to this sensitivity as a means to regulate and control the people through tax hikes, legislation, and restrictions on activities which are currently free.

 Every solution to global warming includes fees, taxes, restrictions, and regulations. Global warming is not a scientific issue, it is a political issue, and it’s only purpose is to put more money in the government coffers at our expense.