I agree that rpg seems confused, and also increasingly shrill in his/her denialism. WAFW.

The word has been handed down to the reserve/B team. "Get into print supporting our main money earner". "If we loose the AGW funding, some of you pretend sciences will have to go".

Aren't they responding well?. So much rubbish appearing in print, or on the air. The next one will probably be the tiddleywinks scientific evaluation & research foundation. I'm sure they will have some rare insights to share with us. As we all know, their special interest is how to get money out of the punters.

Whops, we're not supposed to know that, are we?

Obviously the IPCC, & fellow travlers know better than us, how close to collapse the whole fabrication is, & are in a hell of a rush to get us all tied up in the natural male bovine fertiliser, before it's too late.

Welcome Joseph Bast, As you can see here,the global warning flu and its yellow journalism practitioners continue to infect and deliver new carrier hosts fielding for a cause.

Typical right wing fascist liar. Never once defends his position just spouts dubious personal attacks on someone he knows nothing of and I dare say has never heard of before a few weeks ago.
Sharon Beder is well known in the Illawarra and has supported and initiated many good and worthwhile local programs for the community.
I seem to remember a few books published by her and plenty of articles in local media by and about her. Wollongong University is a well respected institution and would not be supporting long term someone who is as biased and "light weight" an academic as this author makes out.
What a vile seppo tosser.

Personally, I fail to understand why people bother that much with the question of whether climate change is significantly human caused or not.

I've seen enough evidence to suggest pollution of all forms, not just CO2, is causing species to die off, so I'm happy to go along with the crowd of believers. Many of the solutions to Co2 problems, will also create solutions for other forms of pollution.

Quite frankly though, the human race deserves partial self-destruction and greed at the individual level is likely to ensure that solutions are not put in place in time. Folks should take absolutely no notice of any persons with religious beliefs or any person associated with big business - as it is these people that continue to promote irresponsible activiites, such as having more than 1 or 2 children, or recklessly using the environment for their own interests. To support high levels of greed in individuals, capitalism relies on economic growth. Religions relies on having kids under their control to brainwash while young. Both are unsustainable over the long term.

Politicans won't save us - they simply side with whichever side provides them with the best opportunities to gain power- and are presently totally ruled by both sides. ie "We must cut power use, but here are baby and first home buyers bonuses, so that you can have more kids". re CFC - "here is some money we have borrowed on your behalf so that you can spend it on useless consumption to support our wealthy capitalist friends, who give donations and freebies to us pollies".

The opinions of strongly religious folk, should be seen to be like those of children - in accepting god (namely the falsities of spiritual politicians- churches) as their master they either do not develop or loose their ability to think outside of thier own social groups egotistical memes.

Incidentally, Bast's funding claim is meaningless because the Heartland Institute doesn't disclose its donors. Check it out at: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute

Why stop at 14%? Why not say there's no corporate funding, and that the Institute survives on remissions from grateful third-world sweatshop workers? It would be scarcely less believable than everything else it publishes.