Congressmen join forces to fight global warming

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If all of theses "scrupulous" scientists were to be proven wrong about this "global warming/climate change" stuff (both terms used because they are interchangeable depending on how warm or cold it is when the esteemed champion Albert Gore gets out of bed each morning)

Colloquially, yes. Not technically. Global warming drives climate change.

how much money would they stand to lose in the way of gov't grants and losing positions held at liberal universities and such?

Actually not a lot. If they're trying to get rich then they're doing it wrong. A "hmm, that's funny" result would be an amazing find. It would overturn a century and a half of study in physics (Which, and I hate to break it to you, ain't happening. You might as well hold your breath for a breakthrough in a theory as well supported as germ theory. It's seriously that unlikely). And it would attract a lot of funding from some very rich industries.

Maybe I can get the gov't to give me a grant to study that? Might be as worthwhile as studying the thicknesses of different ketchup, huh? Scientists really learned a lot from that one.

You laugh, but I've got a friend that is actually a food scientist with some patents to his name. Some of his research sounds pretty silly.

 

[BamaInMo1]

They're likely not getting rich off of just one program but they can sure keep a steady paycheck.
Let's face it, right or wrong/provable or not global warming and climate change have become a cottage industry/political billy club (used by both parties).
We certainly know that as long as this planet has been in existence there have been periods of both warming and cooling and the majority of those periods were certainly not caused by humans.