MaxPC wrote:Cleaning up that swamp of tainted data will be cheered by honest scientists and derided by the political lobbies who used tainted data for political and profitable gain.
I assume only people who agree with your opinion are considered "honest scientists". I think scientific journals and the scientific community have mechanisms for detecting problems by reviewing each other's work, and I trust them more than I trust opinions on an internet forum.
Until a group of scientists in the field agree with your conclusion that the books are cooked, I seriously doubt that it's true. Most of this data is available, for free, over the internet - precisely so that others can openly examine it. The claims people have made about this data have been examined repeatedly by scientists on other teams. And no, the Heartland Institute and other lobbying groups don't count.
I strongly encourage people to get their science from mainstream scientific journals. And especially not from publications an conferences created by lobbyist groups.
But it's very useful to look at who is funding the lobbyists and what they stand to gain. The Harvard Business Review had
a great article on this, one of the few that really looks at lobbyists on both sides of the issue. The biggest polluters and the companies that are creating green technologies are most active. Not surprising at all.
Here's one tidbit:
A 2013 study found that two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions were produced by only 90 companies.
And it's not surprising that many of these companies are very active lobbyists. But so are some of the greenest companies:
However, our data also shows greater lobbying activity among greener firms within these same industries, perhaps because their firms can leverage new regulations to gain a competitive advantage over industry rivals. For example, one of the greenest utilities in the nation, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) spent the second highest amount (an estimated $27 million) of all firms lobbying on climate change in 2008 — just behind ExxonMobil, which spent $29 million lobbying and produces an estimated 306 Million tons of GHG emissions. PG&E openly supported a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, and even left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the organization’s vociferous opposition to carbon regulation.
The whole article is worth reading carefully.
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