Dear UncleFester,
This thread is not about who may be profiting from the "climate change" issue, or a policy of "doing nothing". It is about SCIENCE. If you look at the ad for
Save on Home Energy on the main thread page, you can see that Aaron and I are very much in support of "efficiency through better products, insulation, energy efficient appliances, and better fuel mileage", as you say. We are also not "condemning anyone for wanting to be less of a burden on the planet." In fact, we promote those ideas and help others implement them for saving energy and money!
What we are trying to explore in this thread is the possibility that "climate change" is primarily a natural cycle, and that the idea that CO2 is a primary driver of this process is based on lousy science.
I believe that burning "prehistoric carbon" as a way to power this society is economically unsustainable, environmentally polluting, and scientifically unnecessary. But I do not believe it is contributing in any significant way to the changes in the weather or the climate that we are observing. The "Industrial Revolution" just happened to begin at approximately the same time as the northern hemisphere was emerging from "The Little Ice Age". But we have not even returned to the temperatures that existed before that, during what was called "The Medieval Warm Period" around 1000 years ago.
If you watch the film linked at the beginning of this thread, and read the whole thread, I think much of this material has been covered before.
Sorry for the confusion.
Peter