Ted and Michael: your article is dangerously irresponsible drivel with no redeeming features.

CO2 really is pivotal in the heat balance of our atmosphere and planet and the need to cut emissions is absolute. The science is good enough for every serious institution that studies climate, backed by every peak science body that counts for anything; you guys seriously want to bet the future of the world that they are completely and utterly wrong? Or expect people to share your absolute certainty that it's not true and take our advice exclusively off the sore losers and liars of climate science? Does the possibility that leading institutions like The Royal Society or the US Academy of Sciences could be right even enter your thinking? Do you even consider the consequences if the world's leading scientists are correct and humanity makes no effort to reduce emissions - of advocating that we choose to risk the world to the worst case climate change scenarios - because the high priests of climate change denial, who don't hold a candle to real scientists, tell you there is no risk at all?

It's the quasi-religious dogma of climate science denial that's a shaky house of cards, only propped up by wealthy vested interests who fund and promote it's weak arguments because they know that funding real science will just add more papers to the many that show climate change to be real and serious; they probably think that being wealthy will insulate them from the costs and consequences.

It's time to wake up and realise this is issue is deadly serious and isn't going to ever go away in the lifetimes of people now living and start acting on the warning that we are fortunate science has given us