I am not especially conservative and I agree the environment should not be a liberal issue. Especially in light of the fact that the liberals are unfailingly foolish on environmental issues and have been for 40 years.

I am sorry that some people think that there is some conspiracy of deniers paid for by big oil. Follow the money and you find thousands of people who owe their incomes to support for AGW. This is not the way science is supposed to be done.

As a physics professional and a trained scientist with a specialty in scientific method. I have known people who lose their jobs for publishing honest results just because they didn’t fit what the catastrophe models predict. I also have known people who publish embarrassing rubbish to great acclaim just because it fits. This is the type of science associated with the eugenics movement but not with honest professionals.

Putting this simply the models are not supported by the data, either historically or currently. We have no real idea what the future will hold and the idea of a large positive feedback due to water vapor and therefore the idea of a large effect due to CO2 alone is not supported by the physics of the situation or the data available.

The claim of paid deniers or that the science is clear are base slander as far as I can tell and I have closely followed this issue for 20 years. A little warming would be nice but is also all we can hope for. There is little serious doubt that a warmer world would and especially increased CO2 levels would be better for the biosphere.