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The people making these predictions do not have the power to extract taxes. The people who do have the power to extract taxes (Congress) are ignoring the predic

• ekianjo 11y ago
  The people making those predictions are PAID by the government.
  • knowaveragejoe 11y ago
    And? Are you trying to make a case for conflict of interest? Because, time and time again, it's a pretty weak one(unless you want to invoke some global conspiracy involving carbon credits).
• brc 11y ago
  With respect, that simply is not true at all. People (activists and their politicians) are continually using the constant threat of disaster to try and gain power. Witness how many times have we heard a politician say 'we have (insert timeframe here) to save the planet'? The fact that the U.S. Congress has only done a little bit of tax and power extraction on the issue ignores the fact that most of the rest of the developed countries have extracted huge amounts of taxation by throwing around planetary doom. Personally I am thousands of dollars worse off from the application of this power, and my (enforced) sacrifices have not done anything at all to change the planets temperature.
  • mikeash 11y ago
    The activists and politicians are irrelevant to this particular question. You have to look at the origin of the information, which is the climate scientists who gather this data and make predictions. What's their motivation to make dire predictions? Sure, anyone with the slightest political awareness can see why politicians are motivated this way, but that doesn't matter to the question of "what is actually happening?" If you want to tell me that the climate change threat is made up, you need to tell me why all these climate scientists are either consistently wrong, or conspiring to hide the truth.