I find it amazing that people think it is a fraud and a hoax. What do they think … people are laughing their backsides off over it? Profiting over it? What couild be the motive?
You answered your own question, though the profiting is not always or necessarily financial (it often is to the tunes of billions), but also political (*a la *Al Gore) and peer/social profiteering (e.g., pundits and experts on TV).
No one is saying that human activity does not have consequences on the physical environment, sometimes negative and sometimes positive, and every possible degree in betwteen, and that these consequences can - and often are - very imprudent, short-sighted and dangerous ;
however, and without doubt, global warning fanatics have usurpsed the legitimate concerns of the consequences of human activity on the welfare of mankind and used it as a weapon and cudgel against the ultimate welfare of mankind ; i.e., in demanding population reduction, sterilization, increased abortion, increased punitive taxes on industry and labour, ad infinitum. Many of these measure have wrongly supplanted the physical environment and placed it over and above the human race. It may be the best documented case for a new and modern phenomenon of anti-humanism, of official misanthropy.
All too often the experts and pundits I see blabbering on about global warning are more akin to televangelist would-be-prophets forecasting woe, doom, and gloom - which we can save ourselves from if we send a twenty-five dollar cheque to End Global Warming in Ipiwa, Kentucky, PO BOX… (you get my drift), than legitimate observational scientists reporting the data they have collected. That’s a key difference. Scientists are supposed to collect and report observations and data, not interpret the social or political ramifications these might have. This protects their neutrality and objective status, but when we see scientists being indoctrinated with a thesis such as global warming is going to destroy the world, and then issued marching orders to prove this, then the legitimate science suffers because they have become the agents of an agenda and not neutral observers of natural phenomenon.
Pax Christi,
Tim
