Here We Go Again (Score 0)

Death threats are made by people who are fundamentally unstable. The left and the right both have a fairly even distribution of such folks, in the nether reaches of the political continuum. The idea that either side has a monopoly on lunatics in the fringe is, well, nuts.

This does not, and should not, reflect on the vast majority of partisans on both sides, whether they do or don't accept the proposition of AGW or the theory of CO2's role in climate science. Shutting down debate or shouting down the other side because of the actions of a few looney tunes is intellectually lazy.

The issue of climate change is not "resolved" because climate science has become political, and the theory -- such as it is -- has a lot of holes in it that people of a genuinely scientific mindset can see plainly, when they aren't being shouted down by the group-think to which, alas, even so-called scientists these days are susceptible. There was a time when science was 100% certain that the world was flat, and the universe eternal. So much for consensus.

So any call to action that involves increased government power of the sort described above needs to be scrutinized critically. We cannot as laymen just hand over our common sense or our liberties to people who think they know better, no matter how well intentioned they may be (or believe themselves to be). This is especially true when the certitude with which the opinions are held is disproportionate to the evidence, and that evidence has a proven history of being tampered with in fine Procrustean fashion for obvious political gain.

To deny the reality of what East Anglia-style "hiding the decline" did to the argument for AGW (and, therefore, all schemes to tax the planet into health based on reducing CO2) is to deny reality, period.