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Re:Why climatologists used the tree-ring data ‘trick’ by waterlesscloud on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:26PM (#1005537)
Are there really 10s of thousands of scientists doing climate work? What is your source for that? It seems like a high number.
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Re:Why climatologists used the tree-ring data ‘trick’ by waterlesscloud on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:35PM (#1005547)
Answering my own question, there may in fact be 10s of thousands of "climate scientists", for a very broad definition of climate scientist.

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-many-climate-scientis...

Interesting to note though, how low the number is for scientists actually working on climate change.

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Re:Why climatologists used the tree-ring data ‘trick’ by hga on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:57PM (#1005572)
See my comment on the WSJ's enumeration of over 5 billion annually spend on this area; I know it was 1 billion not too many years ago. 100,000 per scientist if there's 50,000 of them; play around with the numbers, but "10s of thousands" feeding at this trough is not unreasonable.

There's a reason why my university's president and department's head are big boosters of AGW/CC, even though the former is a biologist and the latter a chemist.

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