Further to Bushbred:

I have just been told by a ...

("insert respected referee here" I'll go for a mate as well)

Company CEO of an International Freight Group

(is a lecturer better do you think, what did he/she lecture on? Basket weaving? the inference is that it has to be true because its an academic)

...that most of our OLOs with strong arguments for Global Warming could be backed by wealthy Eco/green groups who make their dollars out of industries which will make a fortune if GW becomes factual.

There you go, fixed.

It's just as easy to say the AGW industry is well funded, lots of grants for studying the effects of AGW on whatever as well as people attending Green Camps, like this weekend with Al Gore. I notice the ACF and Greenpeace fund lots of studies - now, the recipients wouldn't be making money and paying their mortgages would they, only skeptics do that don't they?

Always with the conspiracy theories, that someone couldn't possibly disagree unless, unless they were funded by by by BIG OIL! There must be an evil group funding people to say things that are "incredible", well only to you and your co-believers.

It's a good article, perhaps some of our youth realize that shouting and stamping their little feet is not having the same effect in the big wide world as it had living at home with mum and dad, it's called maturity.

Hell, yeah, bushbred: right now, I'm rolling naked in the piles of cash Exxon Mobil have been showering on me.

... I wish ...

I hope all the climate change sceptics here are right because the chances of a meaningful deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions are low to zero and low just left town. So if you guys are wrong we are well and truly f*c*ed.

To stevenlmeyer,

we're probably not all right. We're just less wrong.

The earth worshipers could join PETA and dance around naked making them feel like they are really doing something useful. How much more of this fantasy do we need to tolerate. It does provide an outward cloak of righteousness for corrupt internals. Just a look at the role models.

Now Gore has stooped to preying on impressionable kids who will jump on any band wagon and dance around wearing tight jeans and green hardhats for TV.

It’s a pity that kids couldn’t be taught a bit of cynicism as they grow up; then they might have some protection from users like Gore.

Gore is still using the totally disgraceful and totally discredited ‘hockey stick’ which was used by the IPCC to bluff us into believing that the 20th. Century had the highest temperatures in history. Sometime after this diagram was revealed as a con by independent scientists (historical data had been excluded), the IPCC ceased using it.

Gore’s little film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, claimed that there was less sea ice, and polar bears were dying while trying to find ice. But, sea ice has expanded, and a whole 4 bears were killed by a storm where the ice has been expanding. Gore exaggerated the situation in the Arctic by about 50 times!

I wonder if Gore has told the kids that he has a ’green’ company called Generation Investment Management that their youthful enthusiasm will be helping along; has he told them that he is a board member of renewable energy company?

Has he also told them that one of the greedy companies behind the global financial problems, Lehmann Brothers, had him as a director?

Did Gore tell them about the 35 scientific errors in his film?

Do his new young friends know that Gore charges $100, 000 to $150,000 for lectures while they cavort on his behalf for the price of a green hard hat? Do they know that, apart from what he gets and will get from flogging alternative energy, he netted $50 million from ‘An Inconvenient Truth’? Do they know that he offsets his personal, home energy use by buying credits from his own company, Generation Investments Management?

Irrespective of what these youngsters do, they are a great advertisement for Al Gore Inc.`