Fair point Col Rouge.

>>Like dearest Margaret said.. “Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited."<<

I think we should all take far more notice of Margaret Thatcher, when it comes to matters as important as climate change.

How well I recall her stirring speech on the topic to the United Nations, back in 1989.

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107817

"What we are now doing to the world, by degrading the land surfaces, by polluting the waters and by adding greenhouse gases to the air at an unprecedented rate - all this is new in the experience of the earth. It is mankind and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways."

And her solution.

"We can then agree to targets to reduce the greenhouse gases, and how much individual countries should contribute to their achievement."

Of course, she didn't really mean it.

Two days before she made this very speech, she voted down the proposal at the Noordwijk Ministerial Conference for a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005.

So what was she?

An ardent AGW activist? Or a pragmatic, down-to-earth climate change denier?

Naturally, being a consummate politician, she was both, at different times, when it suited her.

Or indeed, as she herself would put it, every time "the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited"

To be expedient is a normal attribute of a politician.

But to be so consistently expedient takes a very talented politician indeed.