scientists just doing their job?

"The collapse of communism was a disaster for the left. They embraced environmentalism as their new religion,"
Minchin said, sparking a blizzard of controversy.


Minchin is a red neck ‘liberal’ politician from the right in Australia. Liberal in this instance just means he supports less government intervention. You can see how an issue like climate change would tend to wind him up into overdrive.

However the chances of a left wing conspiracy seem remote. How about scientists just doing their job?

Postscript
Just as it is hard to accept the negatives in some relationships; it is equally difficult to accept that some of your opinions might be wrong. For example; accepting that man made climate change is real is a big ask for some people. For these people they prefer to escape into some other blissful state better known as denial and turning a 'selective' blind eye.

Hard as it is to believe as a credible scientist, but yes: in this blissful state it is even possible to think that the world is currently cooling, even as sea levels rise and glaziers melt at record rates.

even more hot air

The chances of a successful outcome at Copenhagen have faded dramatically over recent weeks. The talks seem fated to become nothing more than even more hot air.

The dreaded facts are the number one emitter of co2 is energy sourced from fossil fuels. Of all the energy sources, burning coal is the largest contributor to man made greenhouse gases. Therefore it makes a lot of scientific and economic sense to target coal first. (read Carbon sequestration)

Once this technology is perfected, then a dramatic commitment to electric powered vehicles can be achieved by all world governments by 2020. In this way achieving 350ppm is possible by 2100.

More dreaded facts:

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