"There are many references to this and all you need do is keep an eye on non-mainstram media. Open your eyes. Keep a clear mind."
Mysteriously, none of these sources have been provided...lol I think thousands of scientists in agreement around the world who have exacting evidence, who all essentially agree based on that evidence are better informed on the subject than a mysterious, "I have an alternate theory for evolution. I read it on the internet. Btw, the founder of this theory is a Mormon and got sacked for taking money from creationist organisations" post.

http://www.ipcc.ch/index.html

I also find the authors' labelling of "green hysterics" offensive. Most people who are now witnessing the beginning of the effects of global warmimg are neither green nor hysterical, but prepared to be active to mitigate the effects on our planet, as a matter of inter-generational equity.

The authors' concern for the "working class" also strikes me as phony - and I certainly don't believe that any of them are actually horny-handed sons of the soil, or have ever been down a mine. Shift work in mines is somewhat akin to manual cotton-picking or child chimney sweeping in the 19th century, unsavoury jobs that were replaced in good time. We will need thousands of workers just to clean the mirrors in those solar systems that reflect the sun's heat, and that's just one example of the opening up of future employment.

Mine workers deserve their high pay of around $100,000 p.a., because of the dangers and the nastiness of the job. Because o the extravagant pay packets, no wonder they resist any change, but a society that pays miners more than teachers and nurses is out of kilter. And, should we really be mortgaging the future of the planet to keep a tiny section of workers in rotten unsafe jobs ?

I'm with Kang.
Regular OLO commentators are good sensitive people who do not deserve this fact assault.

Well said, easy times. Most contributors to this blog are the last people you would look to for a workable solution. My advice to the bimboscenti is, go out and do all you could, personally, and then come back and tell us what you have actually done.

And me, well, my humble little regrowth forest absorbs about 750 tonnes of CO2 each year and every tree I cut down goes into long term stable carbon products and will not even begin to emit CO2 for another 60 years. In which time the remaining trees will have grown bigger and absorbed the same volume of CO2 again. So my family business absorbs the annual carbon emissions of 30 Australians, and have been doing so for each of the past 65 years. And so far that puts me about 1,950 years emissions in front of the lilliputan green bimbos adopting the high moral ground on this blog.

In fact, they are still emitting their 25 tonnes each year and absorbing nothing. And that puts me about 3,900 years in front and increasing. But just watch the bile and insult spring from their mouths the moment I question one of their gonzo climate assumptions.

Perseus cites his godlike knowledge of "most contributors", tedious how it provides yet another opportunity for him to spray cliched bile. If he is so sure and proud of his own carbon balance, how come he hates anyone else talking about it, enough to abuse other posters in nearly every thread on this topic?

I would not have a problem with anyone who actually does something to seriously curb their own emissions and then wants to talk about it. But the Liams of this world are all just talk. All their plans involve what they want other people to do. But at least we can confirm that Liam has self selected as a member of the bimboscenti.