re: #45 ArchangelMichael

It’s that to some. Many hit a wall when all proposed solutions to a problem look exactly like the left’s “wish list” that they throw out as the solution to every problem. They wont get past that to look at science because they run into the smell of a left-wing bullshit power and money grab way before they get to any science. This stops a lot of otherwise rational people from being rational on this issue.[…]

Nailed it. As WFB once said, in the Thirties we were told we had to collectivize because the nation was so poor. In the Sixties we were told we had to collectivize because the nation was so rich. I remain suspicious of leftwing activists searching for a cause behind which to slipstream, in hopes of seizing the “means of production.”

But truthfully, I respect the scientific consensus that has coalesced around the fact of AGW, and I’m switched if I can come up with a free market solution or set of solutions. Hope smarter people than me are on the case.