re: #1191 freetoken

Somehow, in the minds of some, climatologists are in some great conspiracy.

Al Gore is a politician… which means like all politicians he must be an opportunist and find causes and constituencies to represent.

And of course some conspiracy theorists think that Al Gore is one and the same, just on the other side of the fence.

Personally, I think think Al Gore just found his niche as a producer and promoter. Aren’t we all opportunists, or wish we could be?

This is irrelevant to the issue. Is the science true or not? Is the response worth the cost or not?

What I suspect is that the anti Global Warming people think is that there is a conspiracy for economic realignment of some sort that is based on political dogma alone, just like there is a conspiracy of the likes of myself (now I sound conspiratorial) to abolish Christmas (which I greatly enjoy in a non denominational manner).

What they seem to miss is that the 6+ billion people on this planet do a hell of a lot more than fart enough methane and CO2 as 6 billion cows do. Every one of us has a monkey on our backs that farts a factory worth of newsprint, bullets, oil, plastics and pavement equivalent to 6 billion herds of monkeys. To question that WE can’t make a difference seems insane and I’m old enough to have seen a difference in nature between my youth and now.

So, should we think we can do something, or shouldn’t bother? That is the question, not whether there is a conspiracy or not.