I wonder if it would be possible, on a world-wide basis, for several million people who could afford it, to voluntarily donate 5 or 10 U.S. dollars, euros, etc., to finance a new, and hopefully definitive, study on global warming.
The most difficult part of this will be finding qualified scientists who are currently completely neutral on the matter, and who side with neither the left or the right in the current debate about global warming. You'd also have to disqualify those scientists who are either hostile or friendly to particular countries. This might be a problem in that I think you'd have to disqualify most, if not all, of the scientists based in the U.S., India or China. And you wouldn't want any scientist from, say, Pakistan working on a study which might make the scientists in India distrustful of the results.
I'd just like to see this done, once and for all, by a group of scientists who have absolutely no political "axe" to grind in the service of either the left or the right. And that the financing will also have absolutely no connection to the left or the right. Now, I wonder, where exactly do you go to find scientists who are completely neutral on this matter, and who will practice only pure scientific method to answer this question, sans politics.




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