Duane Ausherman wrote:I totally agree that there is climate change, as we have lots of historic evidence. The earth got hotter until around 1998 and then went flat, at that "hot" temperature. It is still about that hot. We are seeing things continue to melt and change.
Since there are few jobs in private industry for a climate scientist, they tend to end up in positions in Universities and government. Of course they will "find" that they are needed to push for programs, paid for by taxes, that they hope to continue to get work.
The flat temp finding/theory/position is news to me. Nothing I have read supports it. Where are these findings published?
I'm not surprised that there are few jobs in private industry for climate scientists. With the exception of, say, those companies who manufacture pollution control equipment, I would say that climate scientists are of little use to private industry. In any case, I would sooner trust the findings of climate scientists who work for "universities and government" over those who work for private industry as I believe that industry is not objective in this area. I wish that were not the case but thirty-two years with EPA taught me otherwise. As far as continuing to "get work" is concerned, there's always plenty of that kind if "work" out there. I spent the last twenty of my years at EPA in emergency response and hazardous/toxic waste cleanup. For the last seven years, I managed that Federal program in eight Southeastern states. We never had to "find" it or "push" to "get work". The disasters and the long-term cleanups just kept on coming long after every single Administration thought that we must surely be coming to the end. Some were pure accidents, some were due to carelessness, some due to bad "housekeeping", some to just plain old on-purpose dumping to save money. It's the same with air pollution and global warming. Enough of it goes on in our society to supply climate scientists with lots of work.
