I don't suppose it is any use mentioning that if you follow the money trail in the USA it is all heading towards green technologies, and that green Technologies in the USA is the only section with increaseing job numbers. It may yet save the US economy.
The fear factor of job losses has been over-played. With new technologies jobs change. Going green may well increase overal job numbers even though they might be in different sectors. That has been the way for every major technology shift.
If name calling, insults and bigotry is all there is to the human race then the future is bleak. How about starting to talk about the issues?

David's premise has one major flaw.

By using chaos theory one can predict possible dire consequences from any action one takes.

To extend the premise would to not step outdoors in case all sorts of calamities occur, and is not a basis for policy decisions.

GW as with all issues needs to be dealt with by recognised scientific organisations doing as accurate predictions of the most likely occurrances.

Peter the Believer,

If I read you right you believe there is a giant worldwide conspiracy by scientists journalists and governments to ram GW down the throats of an ignorant populace. Why would they conspire to do that I wonder? To extract taxes from the people by introducing emissions trading? To instill a sense of fear in their subjects as an excuse to increase authoritarian controls on them?

I can't for the life of me figure out what motives they all might have for such a conspiracy to form especially since the things governments and main stream media are most comfortable with is business (growth) as usual with a few distant wars to whet their appetites.

If anyone can provide me with references to peer reviewed scientific papers or other informed literature that questions the consensus on human induced climate change please let me know. There must be volumes of it out there as there certainly are enough skeptics about who must either be climate scientists themselves or have had access to accredited literature on the matter.

Thank you

kulu: << If I read you right you believe there is a giant worldwide conspiracy by scientists journalists and governments to ram GW down the throats of an ignorant populace. Why would they conspire to do that I wonder? To extract taxes from the people by introducing emissions trading? To instill a sense of fear in their subjects as an excuse to increase authoritarian controls on them? >>

Indeed, kulu. In fact, one of our less scientifically literate contributors routinely reduces this asinine conspiracy theory to the trite slogan:

"Socialism by Stealth".

It's all a communist plot!

Shadow Minister
'By using chaos theory one can predict possible dire consequences from any action one takes.'
That is a total misunderstanding of chaos theory and what was written in the article. Nothing remorely like that was written. Nothing remotely like that can be implied from chaos theory. May I request that you (and others) re-read the article and continue this debate based on what was written, not on what was perceived to have been written.