So where are the climate scientists getting driven around in Mercedes with both arms around models?
The climate scientists – people specializing in the “glamorous” and “high-paying” confluence of earth science and statistics – make a decent middle wage salary, probably about on par with what most research scientists who aren’t also medical doctors make. (So about the same salary as people who get their kicks discovering new and exciting species of snails.)
Executives at oil and chemical companies of the sort who fund the sources of “skepticism” – think tanks like Cato, for example – are paid much better.
So go ahead and ask “cui bono?”. If you were willing to answer it honestly you’d be getting a much different answer than what you suggest here.
