Dear Darcy,

I wish you a pleasant swim and walk/ride to Paris - you must be training hard at the moment for this amazing triathlon as I surely trust you will not catch a carbon-polluting plane to that 2015 conference.

I was going to thank Darcy for the heads up so I can tell my local MP (Greg Hunt) to not have a bar of this particular idea.
Then I read all the previous comments and had two visions of Darcy. Sobbing on the bed of his student garret or chatting up gullible young women with his "I am saving the world" speech. On the basis of W C Field's "There is one born every minute" I tend to the latter but hope for the former.
Good luck in all your dreams young Darcy but please do not expect me to pay for any of them.

What young Darcy needs is a strong dose of the consequence of his moralising position; which is to say a time travel ride back about 150 years to be greeted by no power, no medicine, none of the accoutrements of modern life and where he can get up at 5am, milk the cow, put in a 12 hour shift at the mill and come home to his gruel and his hair shirt.

AGW is now being revealed for what it is; a cash cow for the UN and various 3rd world countries and various corporate spivs peddling renewable energy and an indulgence by pampered nitwits who wouldn't know nature if it bit them on their silly backsides.

Be not downhearted Darcy

You've achieved a rare thing on OLO - unanimity amongst Commenters.

Admittedly a unanimity totally opposed to you, undercutting your somewhat misguided, dare I say, uninformed views, but unanimity nevertheless.

Cheers

Pete

I read this article and couldn't believe my eyes. Feeling the need to express my shock at the simple mindedness I checked the comments to see what others are saying. My God, for the first time I see total rejection of the writer's opinion. Not even the old faithfuls are on board with him. So much for the global surge of support for the climate religion.

Yoo hoo, Darcy. The plebs are losing the faith. Your side is losing the argument and people are not listening anymore. The premise you Poirot clones keep peddling is that the climate scientists are scientists, therefore what they say must be true. Climate change sceptics are arguing against science.

But scientists who promote GM food say that GM food is safe, and since when has your tree hugging Earth mothers and world savers ever ever agreed with those scientists?