How did this become a political question at all? To me, it is a purely scientific question. If the proposition that human emission of CO2 and other gases is causing a significant change to the global climate is true, then it will be borne out by science. Politics dose not change a scientific fact.

I am no climatologist, and have not even studied the matter enough to draw my own conclusions, and am therefore pretty much have no (valid) opinion on this issue. However, to be honest, the tactics used by the proponents of the above proposition remind me strongly of those used by moon hoaxers and Hoagland supporters. I even went so far at one point to refer to them here as "woo woos" because the way they act approximates the actions of others called "woo woos" to a very high degree. However, I was told that this characterization constitutes ad hominem, and is not allowed. I was never given a satisfactory explanation for why the same characterizations of groups that behave in a similar fashion was completely accepted.

I guess there is more politics to science, even in a forum that is purportedly dedicated to rational seeking of the truth, than I previously suspected.