@carjockey
"Agreed. But we should remember that those experts who deny 'Global Warming' tend to be associated with companies who are (in theory) complicit in it's proliferation and stand to lose lots of cash if controls were implemented.
Whereas those experts who warn of the dangers of 'Global Warming' have no such agenda.
So who are you going to believe?"
You are accepting of the "experts" who warn of disaster due "climate"?
I am glad you brought this up. People sometimes rely on comfort rather than critical thinking when venturing into an agenda laden minefield. That is what "consensus" is all about: comfort, validation, and 'safety'.
There is always an agenda, if only the fuzzy feeling "agreement with others" may bring.
Dispassionate and pure objective analysis is as rare as bananas in the Arctic. There is always the prevailing politics of the perceived outcome that drives the deceit dwelling in the person of our "guardians". You trust Government? Without rancor, the concept of a trustworthy politic is laughable. It is only when we put on our G issued blinders that we start to slide down the slippery slope. People tend to bud and bond with those with whom they affiliate, it is a given in a social society. This is especially true of the professions.
Government entities/agencies are wildly expensive, all the more when something as important as public safety is involved. The fealty derives from who signs the paycheck, pays the retirement; government is no exception. Loyalty, therefore, is to the politic, not the citizen.
BEA dances to the tunes selected by the powers that reign in the arena in which they operate. This is not surprising, and the standard of any market.
Think of the structure: a standing army of professionals, biding their expensive time between a/c accidents. You think they are best used in compliance? Any agency responsible for the public safety must be dependent on independent resources as to gathering and analysing evidence. Remember the "Memo"?
A purer and more damning bit of proof of weak and 'kept' personnel cannot be found. The actual process is frequently simply tacit, allowing for wildly blatant wet kisses such as the memo.....