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All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.
Climate scientists could make far more money in other careers - most notably, working for the oil industry.
In a video as part of her Global Weirding series with PBS, Katharine Hayhoe comprehensively debunks the 'climate scientists are in it for the money' myth.