…and what if it’s a scam to make Al Gore more rich and doesn’t do a thing for the environment because we haven’t come up with a working dimmer switch for the sun?

…and what if it’s a scam to make Al Gore more rich? And what if it wastes massive resources in a scheme that those pushing it KNOW doesn’t work because there’s no working dimmer switch for the sun?

A comment thread without any substantive knowledgeable discussion about AGW theory. (And the comic isn’t really about that anyway.)

Heat generation and heat retention are BOTH significant to the end result. Only an imbecile would think otherwise.

The scientific weaknesses of AGW theory revolve around complex nonlinear feedbacks involving water vapor, cloud nucleation physics, solar output which alters gamma radiation flux which alter cloud nucleation, among a multitude of other issues. The models have failed to predict directions of trends, let alone magnitudes, for the past 17 years. The data does not appear to support the theory (but nothing is conclusive yet!) Too many people want to advocate or denigrate without knowing what they are talking about. Deniers are fools. Proponents are fools. Doubt is the only defensible position.

As for the cartoon … the stupidity of it is that nobody knows if some of those issues listed on the screen are good goals or not, or if the proposed solutions will make us better off or worse … what is a “green job”? What id renewables is a greater waste? What will make cleaner air and water … economic prosperity or heavy-handed regulation? What if healthier children requires plentiful cheap energy so their parents can afford health care and medicine? What if energy independence requires using coal and frack-gas, so we don’t get embroiled in a nuclear middle east war? Stupid, stupid oversimplification makes for bad cartoons and ignorant comment threads. Bleh on the bunch of you.