The idea that climate scientists are in it for the cash has deep ideological roots

You’ll have heard that line of argument about cancer scientists, right?

Petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch and his
membership of the Mont Pelerin Society is a focus
 of Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains.

The one where they’re just in it for the government grant money and that they don’t really want to find a cure, because if they did they’d be out of a job?

No, of course you haven’t. That’s because it’s ridiculous and a bit, well, vomit-inducing.

To make such an argument, you would need to be deeply cynical about people’s motives for consistently putting their own pay packets above the welfare of millions of people.

You would have to think that scientists were not motivated to help their fellow human beings, but instead were driven only by self-interest.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story on The Guardian - “The idea that climate scientists are in it for the cash has deep ideological roots.”