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Mainstream climate scientists, including Wallace, Steig and Battisti, generally get their research money from the federal government.
"That doesn't make them immune from bias", said Patrick Michaels, one of the most widely quoted global-warming skeptics. "Exaggerating the dangers of climate change can ensure a steady stream of money."
"Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money," said Michaels, a University of Virginia climatologist and fellow of the libertarian Cato Institute. "Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important."
Michaels has received more than $165,000 in fuel-industry funding, including money from the coal industry to publish his own climate journal.

Sandi Doughton/seattletimes 11.10.05