According to TFA: That would be the VW workers' union.
I'd call this move a solid victory for the working man brought about by collective bargaining.

When I look at the situation I see a lot of "skeptical" misinformation being propagated from the fossil fuel industry (aka the Denial Machine). The massive amounts of money that the fossil fuel industry has to throw at influencing the debate dwarfs the combined size of all the "green energy" business in the world.
It's part of why I'm skeptical of the "skeptics".

I noticed that a scientist (especially climatologist) character was missing from your dialog.
You might want to look into that.

This is an article from The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists).
In the 50+ years that they've been publishing I bet they're sick of talking about nuclear (power, weapons).

How many more galaxies must suffer before we build a universal healthcare system?!?

As you point out: The farms are now where we know the farming to be good. Along with the farms is all their infrastructure that will have to migrate.
... but there's another issue I'm not clear on:
Do we know if the soil further north will be as productive as the soil that is currently being farmed?

It sounds like a case of: The privileged abusing their power in an attempt to end a protest against the abuse of power by the privileged.
It's practically Newtonian.

Why does it matter what non-scientists have to say (pro- or con-) about the scientific theory of Global Climate Change? The theory is either mostly based on sound scientific reasoning, or it isn't; What the snake oil salesmen say doesn't change that.
The line of thinking that you have expressed reminds me of how Creationists used to argue that the theory of Evolution must be false because they believe it advocates an "atheistic" view of the universe.

Interesting that you should mention the Vostok ice core data. Most Climate Change "truthers" aren't very familiar with the scientific data about Climate Change.
I'd like to draw your attention to something interesting about the Vostok ice core data:
You'll notice that, in the last 400,000 years (spanning multiple Ice Ages and inter-glacial periods), the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide never exceeded 300ppm. We currently stand at ~390ppm.

"Denier" (in this case) could be more accurately described as "truther" (as in "vaccine-truthers" and "9/11-truthers").
Simply put: A ____ truther is a person who believes their position must be right because it is NOT the majority opinion.

I came very close to leaving a few weeks ago, but I changed my mind after they released a Netflix streaming client for my Android tablet.

We also know that, over the last 400,000 years (spanning several ice ages), the levels of carbon dioxide never exceeded ~300ppm.
Today we sit at ~390ppm.

People, like Dunbal, can never be satisfied:
If Gore had no investments in green energy Dunbal would say "put your money where your mouth is Mr. Gore", but because he does instead he says "you stand to personally profit from this Mr. Gore".

The Green House Effect caused by greenhouse gasses is known to increase the global average surface temperature by ~32C... and yet is absolutely incapable of being influenced by human emissions of the same green house gasses according to some people.