Solar effect on global warming and ch4 "swindle" programme

brian mitchell wrote

With all due respect to science, it is completely impotent when it comes
to generating the mass change in sensibility necessary for this global
situation to be faced and addressed. Science is beyond the ken of most
people and governments are too obedient to vested interest to pay it
more than lip service. I'm afraid the only two things which might
penetrate the self-bubble in which we all live are repeated
weather-related catrastrophes involving significant loss of life and
property or execrably glitzy propaganda, and I've not much hope for the
latter.

The problem isn't impotent science but corrupt scientists. Science as a
method may be essentially sound, but its adherents are as prone to
greed, selfishness and hypocrisy as anyone else (including politicians).
(It's also naive of them to think that no-one else notices this.) How
many of the "scientists" who tell everyone else that "something must be
done" not only spend much of their careers travelling (by air, of
course) from one conference or symposium to another, but are dependent
on the contributions of others to do the real work behind their
research, and almost all at the expense of the taxpayer?

It's also very noticeable that most "scientists" avoid addressing the
general public and instead try to impose their opinions by influencing
government policy. Perhaps this is unsurprising when their message is
"do as we say, not as we do"!

Mainstream climatologists are probably right (on an issue which FWIW I
started campaigning on *many* years ago), but as long as they can be
seen as trying on the one hand to discourage (most probably through
punitive taxation) everyone *else* from using energy while on the other
hand demanding (via the state) that taxpayers buy them new facilities,
more researchers and better career prospects, taxpayers will--quite
rightly--treat them with the same--or worse--contempt with which they
treat politicians.

If scientists really want the attention and respect of the majority,
they can start by putting their own houses in order, improving their
(generally pitiful) communications skills, and growing enough backbone
to address people directly rather than hiding under the skirts of a
discredited state which is itself a major part of the problem.

--
Hil