This point of view ignores the cost of crop losses, floods, droughts, black lung, cancers, species loss, not to mention the cost of marrying our economic success to volatile, commodities (witness a new oil shock now, coal plants in New England closing due to a doubled price of coal, etc.) and the national security costs of maintaining access to imported oil.

Another writer here privately pointed out to me, that we can see in WordPress that they all came here from one single website, climatedepot, funded by oil money from the Scaife Family Foundation.

Also the 31,000 includes dead heart surgeons and pediatric doctors too as I recall.

The 31000 so called “scientists” by the OISM include physicians, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, chemists, and a host of other broadly defined “scientists” who would have to know next to nothing about climatology.

There were over 10.6 million science graduates as defined by the OISM since the 1970-71 school year, so the 31000 is a miniscule fraction even by their own broad definitions.

Every scientific organization from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists to every one of the National Academies of Science worldwide recognizes the fact of AGW, and AGW is already causing problems; deadly heat waves – tens of thousands dead in France, Russia, Pakistan, China, and Brazil; rice crop declines and wheat crop failures in Russia, Australia, and China – did you notice the price of bread lately, or the news of food riots in India, Bangladesh, Egypt, or Mexico?

~60% of the US corn crop goes to animal feed – seen any starving cows rioting lately? 40% of the rest goes to industrial processing – do you think that people in Bangladesh are rioting because they’re not getting enough high fructose corn syrup in their diet? ~25% of the US corn crop is exported, and according to the USDA most of the corn that is exported is used for feed, some goes into industrial processing, and the remainder becomes food.

Total corn exports only account for ~11% of total US$ agriculture exports, 50 million metric tons; Argentina, the second largest exporter, ships only 13 MmT, and plant their corn after the size of the U.S. crop is known. “Corn to ethanol causes starvation” is a right wing lie.

You are an idiot. However, we do have one thing in common. Your idea about dividing the country between left and right is inviting. Maybe you should mention that to Al Gore. Hell, if he ran on that platform, I’d probably vote for him.

But then, economics never has been the strong pint of fascists.

If those top climate scientists like James Hansen want to do their climate science in the Arctic let them let them pay their own way!

Seriously, Hansen is a scientist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen

The political push-back against action in the face of the clear and present danger is what turned him – as a human being – into an activist, it’s the only moral response.

If climate scientists’ news in the 80s and 90s had been met with the appropriate response by speeding the switch to clean energy, he would not be “an activist” but simply continuing to refine the science.

You do have freedom of speech in US right? – let him pay for himself – why should the public fund a political activist?