No but catchy studies lead to lots of money

Great job repeating what I just mentioned a few posts ago. Of course they lead to grants. As usual, I think you have a misconception - this time about how grants work. A university PI on, say an NSF grant for example, can only receive monetary compensation for two months of his or her normal salary. All budgets proposed for a grant must be meticulously outlined and submitted with the grant proposal. Any and all traveling done on grant money must be outlined and included in the proposal. Grants aren't awarded for profit, at least to university academics - which comprise the greatest majority of climate scientists - they are awarded to facilitate research. Most of the money goes toward the research - lab materials, salary for lowly grad students, post-docs, etc. - and traveling is usually only green-lighted for conferences, or travel to a research site. If you have never been to an academic conference, it isn't exactly what you'd call a vacation. Think insurance seminar in terms of fun. It's work related, no matter where you go. Most time is spent in the hotel and at the talks.

Writing a grant proposal usually takes a couple of months at a bare minimum and potentially much longer. Here's a link to the NSF guidelines and policies for their grants (they are one of the primary sources of scientific grants in the US):

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/p...1/gpgprint.pdf

It's worth two month's salary to subject yourself to this process, for which the prime beneficiaries are typically student researchers. Those damn greedy scientists!

In some cases people with decades of experience are telling me I'm right

Good for you. I work in a professional scientific environment surrounded by international experts in their respective fields. UTK keeps close ties with the Oak Ridge National lab, so some of these people were world famous scientists when you were cutting teeth. You'll forgive me if I defer to their expertise in these matters. Or not. Don't really care either way.

If what your doctor said killed your baby what would you say?

Wow. I've always heard that empathy is a strong indicator of character. Since I don't know you personally, I can only hope for your sake that is a fallacy.

To answer your question, the issue is not the doctor's fault. If something does happen to our baby, it will be from natural causes. If a doctor did something that led directly to harm the baby, through carelessness or deliberate misconduct, I would first pursue all legal options, then go back to my country roots if needs be. I would hold the doctor accountable - much like the scientific community holds its members accountable for the results they publish.

Ask that last question to yourself

I have been asking myself more questions in that regard during the last few weeks than you can possibly imagine. I've certainly spent more thought on that than you seem to have spent on understanding anything about climatology, or science in general.