Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/05/2011 2:48:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'd just like to add something to Max Border's excellent Opinion Zone post on the climate gravy train below. There is actually strong empirical evidence that climate scientists are very highly paid, and it comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The BLS conducts a National Compensation Survey every year to assess how much workers are paid. Most valuable is the fact that it puts everything down to an hourly wage, so you can judge how well people are paid in professions that work long hours (like firefighters - 2556 hours a year) compared to profession that work fewer hours (teachers - 1408 hours a year).
Here's the link to the 2009 survey. Here are the highest paid occupations, along with a few others that we normally think of as high paid:
1. Airline pilots...$112.97
2. Law Teachers, public sector, postsecondary (ie law school professors)...$100.24 per hour
3. Chief Executives (private sector)...$91.18
4. Physicians and surgeons...$89.51
5. Law school professors, private sector...$82.36
6. Private sector engineering professors...$76.11
7. Psychiatrists, public sector...$73.37 per hour
8. Dentists...$73.19
9. Health specialty professors, private sector...$71.45
10. Atmospheric, earth, marine, and space science teachers,postsecondary, public sector...$70.61 per hour
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And the truth comes out! We all knew it was in their best interests to continue the lie as long as they could.
JoMa
Actually he pointed to this:
This is why we are seeing so much hysteria from the global warmers as they watch their scam and hoax collapse. A lot of moronic “college students” bet on this scam to get rich. Now, their futures depend upon be able to find an opening as a “fries guy”. Those grant paid trips to the poles to check on the penguins and polar bears are now just a dream.
For $70/hr I can make up BS numbers at get grants and my paycheck from the taxpayers and/or the ChiComs.
You lumped all of that into “climate change”?
Most of the climate change activists are at lower end of the pay scale in their professions. Most meterologists, who don’t go into academia, are usually the higher paid and oppose a lot of the climate change rhetoric.
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Cooler Heads Digest 4 February 2011
Congress Should Tell the EPA It’s Not Congress
National Review editorial, 3 February 2011
With Energy Czar Gone, Michigan Wins
Henry Payne, Detroit News, 3 February 2011
80% “Clean” Energy by 2035: What Does This Mean?
Ken Kok, MasterResource.org, 3 February 2011
T. Boone Pickens Unwittingly Exposes Absurdity of “Energy Independence”
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, 3 February 2011
How Climate Sanity Has Been Gored
Larry Bell, Forbes, 3 February 2011
How to embed a myth.
Now what is the complaint?
Space science includes Astrophysicists.
Tangent: no way are airline pilots the highest paid profession. Maybe per flight hour, but their flight hours are limited for safety reasons.
Climate ‘Science’: The World’s NEW Oldest Profession.
Thanks Ernest.
Just responded. Thanks. Perhaps I will buy the book. More so to share with others.
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