“What, indeed, could science be without reason?”
Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics.

Without falling back to a theory of cause and effect based on pure reason, we would be unable to say whether global warming was *because of* or *despite* a prior rise in CO2 emissions.

“The rejection of science, of scientific reasoning, and consequently of rationalism is in no way a requirement of life, as some would have us believe. It is rather a postulate fabricated by eccentrics and snobs, full of resentment against life… However those who rally round the stand of antirationalism in the theory of social phenomena, especially in economics … do not in the least want to do away with science. Indeed, they want to do something altogether different. They want, on the one hand, to smuggle into particular scientific chains of reasoning arguments and statements that are unable to withstand the test of a rational critique, and, on the other hand, to dispose, without relevant criticism, of propositions to which they are at a loss to raise any tenable objections….”

“Only the literati are enthusiastic about poverty, i.e., the poverty of others. The rest of mankind, however, prefer prosperity to misery.”

Written in 1933 (foreboding totalitarianism), Mises could not have described the contemporary situation any clearer, could he?

There certainly is a freerider problem, but it’s not the one you dream of solving by government control of everyone and everything involving carbon, i.e. everyone and everything.

Every fund of tax in consolidated revenue is a tragedy of the commons waiting to happen: http://economics.org.au/2010/07/the-tragedy-of-the-tax-pool-commons/ , with everyone interested in plundering everyone else, not getting value for money.

This has given rise to the first call of a democracy, handouts to the majority, which hand in hand with the know-it-all state, gave rise to compulsory indoctrination in the religion of national socialism for all http://economics.org.au/2010/07/government-schools-teach-fascism-perfectly/ of which your own commitment to illogic could not be a better example.

The third tier is using tax funding to corrupt the scientific community into asserting a ‘scientific’ basis for baseless worship of the state-god.