re: #419 Bagua

I’m saying that you are pigeon holing me into a partisan identity. I have no party affiliation in general and my strongest fascinations and positions are international in nature. Thus I tend to hold all politicians and their parties in contempt, especially the major ones I observe and comment on, such as Republican, Democrat, Labour, Tory, and especially the EU. It is more coincidence that the Republicans appear to be adopting positions I now, on balance, favour.

AGW for example has been a fascination of mine since long before the Republicans co-opted it. I said several times that they have damaged scepticism for me as they are reducing it to a partisan issue when I believe it is scientific. In the UK all the majors are pro-AGW, so do you imagine I support Cameron because he is a ‘conservative’?

On social issues I am generally liberal, so which party do I identify with? The answer is none.

First off, thanks for a very considered response, I was too hard on you. Mea culpa.

I just think that climate change is such an accepted fact among the scientists that study it that the deniers have stopped attacking the *science* and are now attacking the *scientists*.