The grants are pennies compared to what the carbon traders stand to make off data they wanted the scientists to produce.
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True that. I’m not sure false information intended to move markets would be as easy to prosecute as a grant though. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it prosecuted . . . and it’s done in financial markets often. Hard to prove. In the USA the prosecutors want a stock market case handed to them on a golden platter before they step into the chaos of that arena . . . otherwise they leave it up to the civil regulators who only really have power over people whose licenses to do business are in jeopardy.
I think I would be looking at grant money paid by corporations like GE who stands to make enormous sums of money off of climate change.
I do agree that squeezing the scientists is where we need to start.