how long can the Hilary supporters carry on their hissy fit. We know Trump won't fund the gw charlatans like Obama did. Get over it Ben, Hilary lost. Try writing on the Russian influence or Israel's influence over the election. At the end of the day Americans chose Trump above Hilary. Stop throwing childish tantrums. You are suppose to be an academic but have written like a spoilt kid who has lost a soccer game.

'But history may yet determine that his greatest disgrace was to willfully and gratuitously ignore the reality of anthropogenic climate change when the time to act was at its most critical.'

Yeah Ben and history more than likely will show how dumbed down academia has become. For many academics adopting this gw faith is simply a cover for lack of any morals.

Yes Pat, some of these folk you critique have turned traditional beliefs upside down and doing handstands!

Why they even turned a flat world into an ovoid one and made the joint a lot warmer when as every boy and his dog knows! that's absolutely impossible when we are as now deep in a solar normal cyclical waning phase!

But it doesn't end there, their daylight saving is bleaching the curtains! And the cows don't like a 25 hour day.

And don't get me started, their blame metric system has made it a lot dearer to fill the tank, put me further from town and as the final insult, made me flaming farm smaller!

Next thing you know they'll be saying that homosexuallity has a proven gentic cause, And seen an several responsible genes down near the bottom or the DNA spiral!?

Be very afraid and watch yourself around those blame microwaves, cause that can zap you with deadly microwaves even when switched off and unplugged!

It's true I tell you, unhand me you valets and take that straight jacket thingy off; or I'll zap you all with my powerful kryptonite powered xray vision!

Y'all have a nice day now y'hear.
Alan B.

The author says: "Epistemology (or the theory of knowledge) is concerned with, among other things, what right we have to the beliefs we hold"

I'd like the author to explain what right he has to believe and advocate that global warming would be dangerous. No innuendo, and no appeal to authority, please. Just the evidence and the relevant facts.

Yes Alan B
Temperature is quite obviously strongly correlated with solar and global physical cycles and we are heading into the next ice age and no one has been able to demonstrate any correlation of temperature with emissions. After you've sacrificed our economy on the altar of your lunatic climate religion, what new crisis will you invent to sustain it?

There's no evidence of global warming, nor retreating polar and glacial ice. But instead as one might expect in a normal cyclical solar waning phase, polar and glacial is is advancing!

The sea isn't warmer and there's no consequent coral bleaching! The permafrost (permanent frost) and tundra isn't melting! And there's no new melt water lake in Alaska or Siberia releasing millions of annual ton of methane!

Nor is there a new summertime northwest passage! Nor record breaking heat waves or longer more enduring droughts! Co2 levels aren't up in uncharted territory!

Cause if there were, they'd be the irrefutable evidence that educated guys, like a super intelligent, Peter Lang demands?

This stuff is clearly not happening and can't during a normal cyclical solar waning phase and one we've been in since the mid seventies! NASA. And (Professor Peter would know if there was! He's a retired nuclear scientist, doncha know! And only persuaded by irrefutable evidence!

Clearly all this is hyperventilation and imagined! Nothing to see here! Take a bex and a good lay down.

Oh Venus, Goddess of love, make all my dreams come true?

No, No, Not the hottest planet in the solar system? Impossible!
It's in the habitable goldilocks zone! AS ARE WE!
Alan B

Just a reminder, Alan, whether methane or methanol burn or are used in fuel cells, CO2 is produced along with water.

Only hydrogen and ammonia fuel-cells produce no CO2, with the latter producing nitrogen as a byproduct. Alternatively the ammonia is decomposed on a recently invented membrane by CSIRO, into nitrogen
and hydrogen, with the latter then used in fuel-cells. In this way easily liquified ammonia serves as a high density hydrogen carrier, almost as dense as gasoline.

Actually, ammonia can and has been used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. Just google "ammonia car"