re: My thesis on AGW with quotes from the 97%

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I grant you there are special interests that seek to influence public opinion away from alarmism. It is presented, however, as if there is one side in it for profit and the other side is purely objective and altruistic. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I already posted on this board quotes from scientists who say that the IPCC is flat out lying about their work. When confronted with these damning quotes, AGW true believers do what religious zealots do when confronted with something they can't explain: They ignore it. They go completely silent and wait for the moment to pass. So if one side is altruistic and objective, why are they lying? Why do we have emails detailing how some science that is not "helpful" is being repressed? Why, after several years of a warming " plateau", after Nasa data comes back showing heat passing through the atmosphere at a much higher rate than any of the models pedict, after CERN showed that seed clouds are caused by cosmic rays, after every single climate model shows drastically more warming than what we actually experienced, why does the IPCC raise their level of certainty of imminent devastation from AGW? Because the largest single special interest group that the world has ever known actually sits on the side of AGW. It's called government. Sure, the Al Gore's of the world profit in the hundreds of millions from propigating AGW, by trading carbon credits and lobbying fees, among other things. But they pale in comparison to world governments that stand to receive trillions in taxes from climate regulations. And those trillions pale in comparison to the growth of government and the increase in regulatory power that it stands to gain. That's what governments really want. The money is lagniappe, because it is only a vehicle for attaining power and control. If the public is swayed by this wave of alarmism and hands the government the ability to take the steps it desires to regulate industry, overnight governments world-wide would gain and power and influence over the private sector, the likes of which have never been seen since America was conceived.

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