Climate science won't survive as an intellectual endeavor unless it's removed from enormous funding attached to 'climate change'

12/3/10, "(Anthony) Watts agreed. "We've witnessed science make a sea change from intellectual curiosity to a role of active and impassioned advocacy," he told FoxNews.com. "The

• only way to return to the scientific method is to

• remove the huge amounts of funding associated with climate change,

and to hire people to do studies that have

• no financial incentive to maintain further research.

The current process is like a welfare system for on-board scientist."...

• Geologist Don Easterbrook said:

""Climate research has now been so thoroughly contaminated by politics and power/money brokers that it has lost credibility," Easterbrook wrote in an e-mail to FoxNews.com. "The only way

• to regain lost scientific credibility is by

allowing scientific debate (which has been totally stifled by CO2 proponents), showing the public the scientific evidence for claimed conclusions, and

• opening up funding for other than CO2 proponents.""...

from Fox News article whose headline trivializes what is a serious subject: 12/3, "Blam! Kapow! Climate scientists in verbal brawl," by Blake Snow