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> which is more likely -- energy companies making billions of dollars, or scientists making millions of dollars

If you want to do motive analysis, you need to look at the full picture. First off, you forgot one player -- governments "making" trillions of dollars, and in need of a project to justify themselves.

And second, energy companies jumped on the AGW wagon a long time ago. They need to be in the right place, ready to dish out expensive solutions to hungry governments. See http://sppiblog.org/news/independent-newspaper-readers-comme...