There are real pollutants in the world (CO2 not being one of them, in almost all situations), many of which are not appropriately represented by the market due to a lack of property rights. People think that government regulation can help solve pollution when infact the businesses simply lobby the government for regulatory permission to pollute more than they would otherwise, prevent private lawsuits bring brought against them, and generally distort the market creating misallocation of resources. Libertarians are friends of the environment, Statists are not. Collectivism destroys and abuses resources by virtual definition.

No, I’m not a climate scientist, my field of study is quantum fields. Nor have I written a peer-reviewed on the subject. I have, however, spent several hundred hours reading up on the issue and written a few articles. I prefer to think for myself than resign my judgement to a greater authority. That’s for religious people to do. I’m convinced to as close to certainty as one can be without being foolish that anthropogenic global warming is a manifestation of pseudo-science complementing the mutual goals of several groups of people, most of whom are unwitting of the fraud they are involved in. Time will prove me right or wrong and I think its come-uppance is coming sooner than most people realise.

Henry – the capitalization of ‘anything’ doesn’t necessarily imply that wanting to make money is bad. It implies that many corporations will do whatever it takes to make money, including things that are immoral – whether they come at the cost of the health and lives of humans and/or animals, or the environment.

And for the global warming deniers, it’s better to do something, and have the outcome be bogus (global warming being false) then not doing anything (and having global warming being true). in the first case, we win. The second case, we lose.

That is assuming you are a climate scientist with evidence against Global Warming. Otherwise, you’d be the scientific equivalent of an armchair athletes yelling at the TV how to coach professional teams properly. Science isn’t an opinion; it’s a, well, science. And all the current evidence indeed shows Global Warming with strong evidence of human causation. It’s always good to maintain skepticism and rigour, which I do, but to outright deny it seems unfounded without peer-reviewed scientific supporting evidence to the contrary.