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Archived Rebuttal

This is the archived Intermediate rebuttal to the climate myth "Climate scientists are in it for the money". Click here to view the latest rebuttal.

What the science says...

If you are reading the comments on basically any climate change related article, it won't take long to get to one (or more!) commenters boldly claiming that "climate scientists are only in it for the money". This will often be accompanied by outrageously high $ amounts to really get anybody's hackles up but without any real evidence for their statement.

In a video as part of her Global Weirding series with PBS, Katharine Hayhoe comprehensively debunks this myth.

Richard Alley makes some relevant points in this interview snippet:

Many of the scientists interviewed for Denial101x also explain why they do what they do and it doesn't have anything to do with money (big surprise!). All those expert interviews are available in the Wakelet-collection Denial101x Expert Interviews

Updated on 2017-11-24 by dana1981.

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