(Try -this site- too.)

I don't deny that the earth has been warming for a long time now.

What I oppose is the level of certainty on the rates and causes measured against the drastic crackdowns on economies and liberties that are proposed as the only plausible solutions to a problem that may or may not be as serious as these proposers advertise.

This is where the conversation is never allowed to go. When James Hansen proposes a planetary tax on emissions, nobody will touch the subject of the kind of authority that would be required to impose and collect it.

Ice is melting in some places, and forming in others. Go to that same NASA site and click on the Antarctic sea ice charts.

There have been attempts to explain this discrepancy. Some plausible. But nobody knows for sure. Maybe I'll wait a while to sell my children into a world of artificially-generated poverty and state slavery.

If you marshalled a tenth of the skepticism of the motives of power-hungry governments and their allies and dependents as you do of the private sector and its allies and dependents, you would be a completely different person.