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There are a lot of ancillary benefits to being a climate catastrophist. Allow me to list some:

* People know your name. You enjoy fame.
* The New York Times writes about you. TV people interview you on the news.
* You get to wallow in rectitude as you shout your warnings to all of humanity.
* People pay you to speak at events.
* You enjoy higher status in the Guild that is higher education.
* You get more money for your department and your university than the quiet ones.
* Big wigs and corporate rent-seekers take you to lavish dinners (at least).
* Your journal articles provide fodder for the second-hand dealers and activists.
* You gain the veneration of your peers (if they buy your results).
* You’re “important” and you get to belong to elite clubs (like the IPCC).

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Moreover, there is strong (perhaps subliminal) pressure to toe the line on the pro warming side–such as the threat of shunning, not getting tenure, not being invited to symposia, and being blackballed from writing papers in the best journals–the scientific equivalent of excommunication for heresy. (I have certainly seen instances of that in the stem cell/cloning and other debates.) I mean, look how Lomborg has been treated–and he doesn’t even deny the existence of AGW.