“The basic tenets for AGW are sound, and even most skeptics do not disagree with them. It turns out as we all now know that reality is different, and the initial concern misplaced, but it was never entirely unjustified. Humans have never been greater number of have a greater impact on the world they live in and it’s part of the growing pains of a modern society that we recognise that what we do could potentially be harmful.”
It is possible we more than “mostly harmless”.
But we could also potentially be of much benefit.
And be under populated.
“By framing the debate as a childish “liberals are trying to take over the world” you do much to entrench the tribalism that is the cause of so much stupidity, and it undermines the credibility of rational objections to the science and policy surrounding AGW. ”
Liberal may not interested in taking over the world, but totalitarians by their nature are trying to take over the world. And some liberals are totalitarians.
But rather than liberal a better term for large percent of totalitarians are Lefties.All modern totalitarians are lefties [or claiming to be lefties]. Modern starting with the French. Though the Japanese weren’t lefties, but they were allies of Germany which was intending to conquer the world with Japanese having a place as allies with a having their sphere influence. But Japanese as with Italy and the middle eastern countries were probably temporary in the grand scheme of things as was Germany’s very more fleeting truce with Russia.
One can have country which totalitarian with no real capability controlling the world, such as Cuba or N Korean, but they want it.
