Publish or peril in the academic research world. Now if you are researching a topic that can be monetized in the corporate world, there is private $ flowing into your lab.
Climate change will not produce a breakthrough drug to sell for example, so who pays for this research. Right, US Govt. Same for many many other hard sciences with limited use of the learned data. Mating habits of butterflies, for example.
No problem here with funding science with the intent of better understanding our world. But when the data is tweaked to sell a political agenda, I call time out. And we have no disagreement regarding the crooked politicians as you discussed.
Another thing regarding the mass die off you mentioned. Oh, and by the way, I don’t have AppleTV so I can’t view the show, so I’ll just wing it.
First, there has been many mass die offs over the life of Earth attributed to various natural events. Volcanos indeed released C02 but please understand that this is a trace gas making up less then ~.03% of our air and cannot single handily be responsible for a die off. More probably other gasses and debris caused a cloud which blocked sunlight thereby choking out significant life on Earth.
And the rate of die off doesn’t mention we have significantly more animals now then then. Be interesting to see the hard numbers there.
The big push is hang our current change on human activities. I won’t go toe to toe with ya as we have a difference but I would think any discussion about global warming etc really needs to have more research on the effect our oceans have and for that matter, the sun. So let’s just fund more research. I’m ok with that. You?
