There’s a difference between...Interesting and rational comment. Agreed, there is a difference between the AGW scammers, ulterior motivated AGW grifters, and AGW scam-victims. Most individuals lack the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate science and to expose most logical fallacies.
The Top Global Warming "scientists" were exposed gaming the system.
- Manipulation of the raw data to fit the desired UN IPCC outcome.
- Back room dealing to sack non-compliant peer reviewed journal editors.
- Conspiracy to thwart AGW scientist from publication in peer reviewed journals.
- Criminal conspiracy to evade Freedom of Information Laws.
- and more
The result of the Top Global Warming Scientist's misdeeds is a science muddle. A great deal of climate research has become unreliable at best and flat wrong at worst. Enormous political pressure has built in many nations to commit great sums to AGW. The money has become the important thing.
Science and Political Conclusions: - It is unknown if the planet is warming or cooling currently or in a longer term.
- It is unknown if man is causing the planet to warm or cool.
- It is unknown if man can alter a planetary warming or cooling.
- It is unknown if reduced man-made carbon dioxide will alter a planetary warming or cooling.
- Limiting carbon dioxide emissions will decrease personal liberty and aggrandize government.
- Spending great sums on an unknown Global Warming will not increase national productivity and will make the nation poorer. The green jobs that are economic are already being done.
- Great portions of Global Warming treasury will be skimmed and scammed by the corrupt UN and the member countries.
- Commitment to permanent funding of the UN is a step towards loss of sovereignty.
You sum up the AGW situation pretty well. Does anyone really know what’s going on? I doubt it, because the climate must be incredibly complex. I’m suspicious of anyone who tells me they have accurately modeled it.
Even if AGW is happening, it doesn’t necessarily justify everything else the AGW believers want. For example, I’m not willing to give up all the trappings of modern life just to save a couple meters of sea rise over the next century.
All in all, I can’t really blame people for believing in AGW. Like I posted earlier, the MSM, government, corporations, and universities have come out pretty strong on the issue. If one really believes Al Gore’s spin, for example, can we blame them for wanting government action?