Yeah right, try to leave the checkpoint in the middle of the process. Let us all know how that works out for you. Also, TSA is not just in airports anymore. You aren't safe from them anywhere.

Then they create roving squads to randomly search us on the streets and to conduct unannounced searches of our homes and cars.

For our safety, of course.

We need to put serious pressure on the politicians to stop this. It's going to be harder than it was with SOPA because we don't have Silicon Valley backing us up.

Can't break it. Can't break in.

That argument gets nowhere because AGW critics simply point out that a huge number of the individuals making up the consensus are funded by the same people who will benefit from the policy changes AGW demands.

It's kind of like how nearly all professional economists have been at least indirectly on the payroll of the Federal Reserve.

This is similar to the reason why AGW critics get nowhere by asking for some kind of falsifiable claim from the AGW camp. AGW proponents simply point out that if we wait for that level of confirmation it will be too late.

Actually "we" do want to politically brainwash students in order to advance a political agenda. Some of "us" want to teach that AGW is true or not true because, for example, "we" have an interest in coal mining or "we" have an interest in operating a carbon credit exchange. Some of "us" truly believe AGW is real and great harm will come if "we" don't act. Others of "us" truly believe AGW is a lie put forth to advance an agenda and that great harm will come if "we" do act.

I agree that most of the posts here are political rants. I don't see any real way to separate the politics from the science.

> 3) They're not convinced? Claim they're biased, corrupt, ignorant, etc. Ignore their objections and move on.
> 4) Keep presenting your case to people, those who agree can convince others. People who will disagree are biased, corrupt, ignorant, etc.
> 5) When you have enough people you can hijack some of the traditional mouthpieces of the experts such as journals, the media, and schools, to broadcast your theory instead.

AGW proponents have done this too. Both sides do it constantly. Both sides have PR firms and think tanks that accuse the other side as biased. Both sides are trying to write the textbooks so that the next generation grows up believing their side as the unquestioned truth. Both sides contain vested interests who stand to win or lose everything depending on the outcome. Both sides contain people who believe they are are correct on purely scientific grounds and are free from conflicts of interest.

Look at this thread. Nearly every comment in it is political rather than scientific in nature.