The AGW deal isn't nearly as complicated as some make it out to be.

Firstly, mankind has been pumping crap into the ecosystem for centuries

Secondly, the 'developer' (more correctly atilla, for its propensity to rape & pillage) mentality has destroyed a lot of the natural CO2 regulation system (trees. ocean algae etc)

Thirdly, the combination of the above can't possibly be a good thing

Fourthly, whether or not AGW is factual or otherwise, we do only have one planet on which to dwell, consequently it makes sense to look after it by minimizing the damage we do

I fully agree that carbon tax is a con intended purely to raise consolidated revenue, that said I sincerely wish both the red-headed witch & RAbbott would fall off the planet, ideally taking the Greens with them.

To background this debate it helps to start with the campaign against nuclear power and uranium mining that morphed out of the Ban the Bomb campaign in the 1950s and captured the worldwide environmental movement. This was charted by the late John Grover. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2011/Grover-Power.html It put in place the infrastructure to promote the climate scare with maximum impact.

Second, it is essential to understand how the IPCC is run by insiders and activists, with the scientists in a subordinate and supportive role, cherry-picked to provide the results required for the campaign. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2012/IPCC.html

Third is what Garth Paltridge called the “climate caper”, that is the corruption of science by Big Funding from Big Government and the abuse of models to fabricate scenarios of doom. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2011/Paltridge-Climate-Caper.html

He is a genuine climate scientists but not a part of the so-called “97%” of orthodoxy that supports the agenda of the IPCC and the alarmists.

And on top of all the political interference, there is still enough genuine science in the little-read major scientific reports of the IPCC to indicate that some warning (as much as we could expect in 100 years, until it actually stopped) will do more good than harm. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13019

The popular IPCC report is the thinner “executive summary” that is produced to promote the agenda.

It never ceases to amaze me how much male bovine dropping the big-business lobby & its friends can generate in attempts to justify doing stuff-all

Luciferase, there are lots of people pontificating about the subject here. If they don't know enough to be able to make useful comment on my casual ruminations, why on Earth are they bothering?