The inconvenient truth is that Environmental scaremongers and false prophets are routinely revered and receive much more exposure in media.

If Paul Ehrlich, a butterfly specialist, can publish bestsellers on the subject of overpopulation and enjoy incredibly succesful career out of being incredibly wrong on environmental issues, AG can do it too.

He proclaimed in 1992 that that the Northern ozone hole was leading to increased cases of cataracts and blindness among humans and "to blind rabbits in our backyards" and got away with it. Now, he's onto bigger fish.

An excellent review of Goracle's mindset can be found here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n37_v14/ai_21212822/pg_1

Global Warming:Witnesses for the Skeptical Perspective

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=500&idli=1

(more or less wildly paraphrased) that displacement is a condition where someone - unable to admit the truth about himself - lashes out at those around him in frustration and rage at his own impotence (not to mention complicit guilt) in some situtation where he himself bears the blame, shifting instead his culpability to others.

Sounds bad - impotent, self loathing people, lashing, hating and raging against others, to hide their own shortcomings.

I'll turn on my hyperbolic impotence displacement detector and comb through any suspicious posts:

never hurt the ranters

the hatred on show

infantile irresponsibilty

in defence of "Happy Motoring"

and other yobbish abuses of Mother Nature

will eventually catch up with these right-wing smart alecks

and boot them in their fat arses

Roy Spencer's little piece of crapola

Mr Belien bothers to spread such drivel

from creationist whackos like Spencer

stir up the rag-tag army of global warming deniers

Oh my God!!! - And that was just from a single post selected completely at random. So much hyperbole, so much rage displaced at other people who never hurt anyone at all. The innocent victims don't even know this poor impotent, frustrated and angry soul that obviously hates himself very much.

I, for one, expressed no rage at any pols (nor do you cite me doing so).  Rather, I expressed fear at the wrath of fellow academics who have not read deeply into the global warming literature, who ridicule me behind my back and to my face, and who can do me great harm by denying me tenure.

(more or less wildly paraphrased) that displacement is a condition where someone - unable to admit the truth about himself - lashes out at those around him in frustration and rage at his own impotence (not to mention complicit guilt) in some situtation where he himself bears the blame, shifting instead his culpability to others.

You see a lot of displacement in the comments here regarding environmentalism, a lot of rage at a few pols who - no matter how incompetent or distasteful they are - never hurt the ranters and and adherents of this column in any discernible way or fashion. It's hard to believe that the hatred on show here is anything other than redirected fear that infantile irresponsibilty in defence of "Happy Motoring" and other yobbish abuses of Mother Nature, will eventually catch up with these right-wing smart alecks and boot them in their fat arses in the form of more extreme weather, more air pollution, more epidemic disease, and a generally lowered standard of living and life expectancy when the kissing has to stop.

With regard to Roy Spencer's little piece of crapola presented here, one wonders why Mr Belien bothers to spread such drivel from creationist whackos like Spencer. Is it to stir up the rag-tag army of global warming deniers into making yet bigger fools of themselves, while Mr Belien can draw back and chuckle, burying the item under yet another sudden slew of new posts should refutals suddenly pile up in a direction opposite to the apparent intent of his blog?

For the record: Robert Samuelson, drawn in to support Spencer's argument, does not deny the fact of global warming at all in his cited Newsweek op-piece. Instead, it seems - if I read him right - that he claims there is nothing much to be done about it except grin and bear it. Happy Motoring as always! Pure defeatism, if you ask me, that puts Samuelson on a par with dhimmis who say we should just bend over and enjoy the muslim invasion of Europe.

In an Inconventient Truth Big Al states that with future global warming the Zuider Zee will come in and flood Holland all the way to Arnem.  Too funny.  If we turn the pumps off this would happen today (like duh, we are below sea level).  This guy has been completely detached from reality for quite some time now flying around in his private jet spewing slogans, propaganda and other garbage.  Thank G-d he never got into the White House.

Regarding the enemy I nominate these luddites: Plane Stupid http://www.planestupid.com/ They are currently protesting at Heathrow. The web site is awesome. British courts forced them to print their injunction on their web site. I like this quote

"Aviation is so damaging to the climate that jetting off to Sydney for a holiday produces the same amount of CO2 as a mini driving around the earth 640 times!"

So 40,008 km / maybe 8km/L * 640 = 3,200,640 liters of petrol. So flying to Sydney is like driving up 3,200,640 liters of fuel or more. I guess if you repeat nonsense long enough you start believing it.

"Does anyone have advice about how to deal with colleagues when the issue of global warming comes up? "

1) ask them if they eat meat. If so point out that cattle farming is very likely the number 1 source of greenhouse gases.

2) point out that China is already the number 1 greenhouse gas producer because of methane from rice paddies in addition to CO2. China is exempt from Kyoto. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/methane.html

3) Ask them how many Cat 5 hurricanes were in the Atlantic in 2006. Everyone is still ranting and raving about Katrina and the active 2005 season and they forget that we had zero significant storms in 2006.

4) Mention that many scientists consider Bush's methane cap and trade system to be the most effective program yet implemented to stop greenhouse gas emmissions.

5) Also mention that of the Kyoto signatories Russia is the only one that appears on target to actually meet the goals and this is only because of their economic collapse of the 1990's.

6) Ask them how their country is doing. Europeons love to sign things. Look at the Lisbon agenda and laugh.

A Really Inconvenient Truth: Kyoto Protocol Destroying Ozone Layer:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/08/15/really-inconvenient-truth-kyoto-protocol-destroying-ozone-layer

Show 'em this:

http://ultimateglobalwarmingchallenge.com/

Then tell 'em to put up or shut up.

Hope this advice helps keep you gainfully employed.

Does anyone have advice about how to deal with colleagues when the issue of global warming comes up?  I've wasted hundred of hours researching this issue, trying to find some real evidence to justify the hysteria, but it's impossible:  this is clearly an example of mob rule in the sciences.  But my colleagues -- most of whose knowledge of climate change comes from Gore's movie -- are true believers and view me as a heretic.  I will be run out of my university if I continue to speak up.  But am I supposed to just sit there and smile stupidly when they prattle on about the need for carbon taxes and their fear of rising ocean levels?  Am I supposed to concur when they blame every bad storm on George Bush?  Any advice?  I need this job.

If anyone is not convinced Al Gore is a complete swine go back and look at his similar guilt by association attacks on Ross Perot during the NAFTA debates in the early 1990's. As horrible of a President as G. Bush has been Al Gore would have been far worse.