It’s even more egregious given the fact that the pro-green crowd outspent those “very rich opponents” by well over 1,000 to 1. They had the funding, the media, powerful people in government, and they still can’t quite pull off their totalitarian plans.

“The greens claim to understand the dynamics of complex ecosystems better than the rest of humanity…”

Proof positive that they are idiots. There are plenty of real causes these people could get behind, but they saw warming as “the one thing” that would bring everything together. It brought a few other things together, too. This is why these people are often referred to as “watermelons.”

I have no faith that the “enviro movement” will come back to sanity. I think another movement of some sort will have to replace it.

full disclosure:
I gave up my car & intl travel for a full decade as an experiment. Yes, I saved some gallons of ga$, reduced footprint by a lot, gained reading time. etc. But I’d not recommend it to anyone: It’s a pure waste of personal freedom.

While I saw the rise of ridership in public transit in recent years (more so after the gas prices went up along with the hype) Here in the hypocritical “green” city of SF there are no good alternative transits; it must be worse in most other parts of US.

& also, I never watched “An Inconvenient Truth”.

I think there is more to this scene than just blaming leadership or lack thereof… (a parallel to blaming Bush for all the evils of past decade)

“Talk about group think. The author of this article and most of his commenters enjoy bashing the people who want to actually do something about global warming more than they want to propose solutions that will address the enormity, and time critical nature, of the problem.”

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Most all AGW skeptics were previously believers in the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis, (as was I, but at that point was accepting it at face value, and had done no study into it), and through independent thinking and investigation began to doubt the beliefs, and slowly changed their minds. My scientific inquiry lead to my learning that there is only 1 CO2 molecule for every 2,632 air molecules by volume in the atmosphere. Then I learned that most of the IR absorption bands for CO2 partially overlap with the IR absorption bands for water vapor, which taught me that if water vapor (the major greenhouse gas) is already present, and CO2 is added, there isn’t much effect, since the water vapor is already absorbing most of the heat energy that gets trapped producing the greenhouse effect. A good analogy would be shining a light source through a piece of dark red colored glass plate (water vapor), then sliding a light pink colored glass plate (CO2) in front of the first, and seeing that the light that shines through has changed very little. Knowing these and other scientific facts, I knew the warmists were exaggerating the warming effect of CO2 by at least a factor of 5. I won’t list all of the reasons I believe that AGW is a hoax, there are literally dozens of them. I’m currently writing a brief “100 Reasons we can be confident that AGW is a hoax”. I’m also writing “10 simple experiments that kids and adults can do to show that Anthropogenic Global Warming is a myth”. As for promoting renewable energy (“solutions”), we need to let the marketplace decide, and let people jump on board through their own free will, rather than cramming it down our throats though carbon taxes, which by the way will increase the cost of everything we buy, even food..

Chiefly as it is not. It is slop,. AGW is a myth. I dont know whether it is a fad or a fraud. But it certainly is false.

And no, before the name calling starts, I am NO fan of big undustry, and before the Greens made utter fools of themselves with this issue I was moderately supportive of them. Not any longer. I am still leftwinger to boot, who happens to have a strange afliction. I think in terms of reason and evidence, and know some history. The medieval warm period will NOT go away just because Gore and co want it to.

And with it the plain inference is that climate changes is mere natural cycles. And the scientific observations confirm this also