I'm sure that there are some large commercial and hierarchical outfits that are very opposed to the present popular global warming theory, Amos, because it presents a threat to their immediate profits. No argument there.

However, I think there's another consortium of special interests who are very interested in promoting the present popular global warming theory, because it is advantageous to their immediate jurisdictional power, profits, and self-interests.

So...I think there are 2 sets of dogs loudly baying on either side of the fence, as it were, when it comes to climate change and either one of them or both of them may be quite intent on misleading the public for their own personal gain.

I know the media loves nothing better than a good scare story, and so do our leaders, because it gets us all onside to let them change laws and alter various things in drastic ways...and it gets us to panic and spend our money.

RUSSIA INTENDS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

That one eventually fizzled out, but it funded decades of gigantic military spending, and a whole bunch of small wars.

THE BEES ARE ALL MYSTERIOUSLY DYING! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm. Well, they were all dying for awhile, but now they seem to be recovering.

H1NI FLU IS COMING! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!! BUY OUR VACCINE TO SAVE YOURSELF!

Hmmm. That turned out to be much ado about nothing, didn't it?

SARS IS COMING! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

Hmmm. Nope. False alarm.

SADDAM HAS WMDS!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA BE BLOWN UP UNLESS WE INVADE IRAQ!!!

Nope.

1974 - A NEW ICE AGE IS COMING!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA FREEZE AND DIE!!!

Nope.

KILLER BEES ARE COMING NORTH FROM SOUTH AMERICA!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Nope.

NORTH KOREA HAS THE BOMB!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

Oh, just shut up and go away, would you?

IRAN IS BUILDING NUKES! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

Israel already has 200 of them. Scream about that, why don't you?

GLOBAL WARMING!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

Yeah. Gee, it's a wonder any of us are still alive, isn't it? I mean, hey, it's a goddamn dangerous world, you know. Just listen to the media. They'll tell you all about it. When one horror recedes, another soon advances to take its place.

I am wondering if before my life is over I will see giant officially sponsored headlines in all the media screaming: SPACE ALIENS ARE PLANNING TO INVADE THE EARTH!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

I mean, heck, it's about the only official alarm bell left that the powers that be have not used to terrify us into dumb obedience up to this point in time.

Terror and constant anxiety is a good way of keeping people off balance and helplessly dependent on Big Brother, so I don't think it's accidental. I think it's a fairly deliberate policy to always have one major scare story blazing on the front burner and another one waiting in reserve on the back burner if the first one fizzles out.



I have just copied and pasted the above....because my previous post got truncated somehow.

Amos, I do not have the confidence in "the science community"...or any other hierarchical authority group in this society... that you do. If I knew them personally, it would be a different matter. Then I'd be in a far better position to assess their actual motives and to know who is really saying what about what...and why.