Global Warming and Renewable Energy

In response to my recent piece on renewable energy politics, Ron Hill, very bright guy, writes some cogent stuff on his position as a climate change denier, and concludes:

The failure to insist on objective science is part of the problem with you folks who make your living in the “alternative” energy field. I do not make any money on either existing energy or alternative energy. Can you truthfully make the same statement?

The answer is no, I can’t.  And I agree that those who stand to profit from the world’s acceptance or rejection of global climate change (obviously) have an incentive to shade the data in their direction.  But, as I point on in my recent book on renewable energy: “What would you guess represents more money (and thus more incentive to bias one’s findings): the business of atmospheric research, or the business of selling of trillions of gallons of gasoline?”

I also point out that the vast majority of climate scientists who have studied global warming and published peer-reviewed papers on the subject support the theory.