Lindzen, for his part, charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC.
i don't think this proves any kind of bias or corruption whatsoever. consultants are usually paid, aren't they? and if i'm going to take days off of work to make a speech/testify somewhere, i'm at least going to get a free trip out of it if i can. i'm willing to bet that the sierra club funds trips for professors to go make speeches and testify to various government bodies, and pays for their consultation services, too. what's the difference?
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Sloan is the management school at MIT, not the atmospheric science school
yea, i dunno what that's about. but he is who he says he is:
http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/person...ty&who=lindzen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen