Climategate

[Thorne]

Research funded by companies is automatically suspect.

Why then is research funded by a Government automatically free from suspicion?

I never said it should be free from suspicion, but when research from governments agrees with independent research, or research from other governments, you have to take that into account. Of course, if you really don't want to believe in global warming it's far easier to believe in a vast global conspiracy to fabricate evidence for it. After all, the governments stand to make so much money on it, don't they?

Don't they?

[DuncanONeil]

I never said it should be free from suspicion, but when research from governments agrees with independent research, or research from other governments, you have to take that into account. Of course, if you really don't want to believe in global warming it's far easier to believe in a vast global conspiracy to fabricate evidence for it. After all, the governments stand to make so much money on it, don't they?

Don't they?

I am glad of that opening line. I really would not expect less from you.
But ... The US Government sees money and is planning to grab a lot of it.