A new study adds some more substance to what many know: a very few, very rich men have been playing puppet masters and driving the "climate-change counter movement's" publicity campaign which is solely dedicated to stonewalling all substantive efforts to understand and mitigate what we are doing to our atmosphere.
The real tragedy is that these groups use blatantly phony tactics, repeatedly misrepresent science. They spend most their effort manufacturing scandals, witch-hunts, and character assassination - in ways that an informed public ought to be able to see through. But, Americans seem to have become so Hollywood-ized that they don't care to differentiate between a con job and honest professionalism anymore: "Just tell us what we want to hear."
Why? Is it because we have come to expect that every material desire is our birth-right and damn anything or anyone who dares suggest otherwise?
But, the reality is that this isn't the 1970s anymore.
It's not about climatologists making conjectures anymore!
Our planet's Arctic Ice cap is disappearing at an astounding rate;
and the rest of the cryosphere isn't doing much better;
the planet as a whole continues warming;
the Jet Stream continues getting weirder;
driving ever more extreme weather patterns and infrastructure damaging events.
CO2 IS an key greenhouse gas and does act as atmospheric insulation;
Society IS, in essence, adding extra thermo blankets onto our planet and the warming will continue.
This isn't open to rational debate anymore, the evidence has become too overwhelming.
But, it sure is open to endless irrational stonewalling
