re: #107 Naso Tang

Honestly, I don’t say this in defense of anything or anyone, but while I can conceive that there is a mindset that favors, say, coal/oil industries, I find it hard to understand why they (their management, as opposed to politicians) would bother to have a deliberate policy of anti AGW propaganda for the simple reason that their profitability can only increase under any conceivable scenario in the future of the next couple of generations; and that includes regulations that will make their products more, not less, expensive.

If anyone claims they think that far ahead they should smoke some more fairy dust.

That seems a bit of an exaggeration. Considering that energy companies have had the habit of buying patents and suppressing technology for 50 years…