> or government-like body It sounds like you're advocating that the results of the scientific process should have no effect on policy-making, because otherwise

> or government-like body It sounds like you're advocating that the results of the scientific process should have no effect on policy-making, because otherwise then "social condemnation" of the kind that you're describing becomes part of the government policy-making process. I don't like that idea. I like having climate-change science feed into policymaking.