The Answer, Stated Simply And Perfectly, Why So Many Climate Scientists Claim Climate Change Is So Dire.

Chicks on the Right  "The Weekly Standard recently interviewed MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen, and the entire column is great if you want to check it out, but there was one paragraph that stood out to me above all the rest. It explains exactly why climate scientists with uber-impressive resumes have so many people alarmed about man-made global climate change:

If Lindzen is right about this and global warming is nothing to worry about, why do so many climate scientists, many with résumés just as impressive as his, preach imminent doom? He says it mostly comes down to the money—to the incentive structure of academic research funded by government grants. Almost all funding for climate research comes from the government, which, he says, makes scientists essentially vassals of the state. And generating fear, Lindzen contends, is now the best way to ensure that policymakers keep the spigot open.

 

....   " 'When you have an issue that is somewhat bogus, the opposition is always scattered and without resources.  But the environmental movement is highly organized. There are hundreds of NGOs. To coordinate these hundreds, they quickly organized the Climate Action Network, the central body on climate. There would be, I think, actual meetings to tell them what the party line is for the year, and so on.”

"Climate change skeptics, conversely, aren't organized into one central totally made up "network."  They're normal, thinking, rational people who don't have time to be community organized for the sake of fear mongering and power grabs, like the enviro-alarmists."