Unfortunately, most of the people and organizations pushing AGW are not very reasonable. They're not calling for more study. They're not wondering if maybe they don't know all the facts.

Their ONLY response has been to call for vast amounts of power and wealth accrued to centralized government authorities (state, national, and international) and to attack every industry that involves combustion. When you say "do something," this is the only "something" I have ever heard out there.

The defensive response of the industries shouldn't be all that surprising.

Your personal belief is that self-interest, greed, and power-lust are only operating on one side of this discussion. As long as you stick to that, you're not going to come up with a realistic analysis of either the problem or the solutions.

The global warming industry is worth many billions of dollars around the world, both in taxes and fees to governments, and industries feeding off of it. The U.S. "Green Energy" industry alone hauls in billions, a lot of it from taxpayers. These are businesses, too.

Scientists who toe the line get published and access to government funding. Others don't. This is not corruption. The scientists aren't inventing data. It's natural selection. Scientists who point out different data or do different analyses aren't heard. Most statistics I've seen about "80 percent of scientists" supporting AGW have the description in the fine print, "published scientists." You can see how that might work. "Peer review" is basically just another way of one sheep and three wolves deciding what's for supper.