re: #39 Charles

In one case you have funding being provided to scientific organizations, in order to do scientific research. (And I guarantee you that no individual scientist is getting rich.)

In the other case you have energy industries providing millions of dollars for no purpose except to subvert the scientific research, because they have a vested interest in keeping people ignorant and ill-informed about this subject.

One of these things is not like the other.

Follow the money. Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s has certainly personally benefitted from funding. The BBC pension fund has certainly benefited from supporting the science. Those are facts.

Just because you can find “poor” scientist doesn’t mean all scientist are poor.