Reply #8: My view on the "two sides" is that one side, Big Oil, has a lot to lose

[XemaSab]

and the other side, Unkempt Scientists, don't have a lot to gain.

I'm a scientist, I know a lot of scientists, and trust me: nobody goes into science to get rich or become famous.

Whenever I hear republicans saying that climatologists, geologists, and other scientists are making stuff up to get grant money, I flash on the scruffy biologist in the movie "Never Cry Wolf" sitting in a hut eating mice. Seriously, I looked at a job once up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge studying carbon loss in Arctic soils, and the entire job description was wading through the soggy Arctic tundra, collecting peat moss cores, and weighing them. All the while fighting off mosquitoes. That's glamor right there. :P

But yeah, the other day I had an obsessive freak-out and went along the beach picking up all the plastic. :(