[simbob]

Isn't that the way science is supposed to work?

How is Mr. Weather Channel's screed science? He doesn't cite any support for his conclusions other than his presumption of conflicts of interest among the unnamed scientists whom he accuses of perpetrating the alleged "scam." This rant is classic demagoguery.

You ever notice that when someone doubts the GW theory of the day, they are immediately demonized, no matter what their credentials.

Demonize a demonizer? What are his credentials? If "founder of the weather channel" is all he's got, then he's got nothing. Even if he has other credentials, he still has offered nothing in this rant but accusations and conclusions. Where's the science?

It's called Economics.

Ah. Mr. Market. The Invisible Hand. Let's all trust Economics.

Economics is the collective result of individual decisions made in the pursuit of short-term personal advantage without consideration of either the effect on other individuals or the long-term consequences on society or humanity.

Slavery, child labor, heedless depletion of resources and pollution. There's plenty of evidence in history that economics should not be trusted as a motivation for public policy or as the mechanism for its implementation.

You're right that peoples' desire for the easy increase of "livability" from buring fossil fuels is Economics. But the "price" of long-term effects, including self-destruction, isn't part of the equation. If we wait to find alternatives until the economic price is too high, will the price threshhold of self-destruction already have been crossed?

That's the intersection where real science and public policy meet in rational government.