Politicians Think That If Matters Look Difficult,

The Forcings That Drive Long-term Climate Change Are Not Known With An Accuracy Sufficient To Define Future Climate Change.

Injection Of Environmental And Political Perspectives In Midstream Of The Science Discussion Cannot Help The Process Of Inquiry. I Believe That Persons With Relevant Scientific Expertise Should Concentrate, With Pride, On Cool Objective Analysis, Providing Information To The Public And Decision-makers When It Is Found, But Leaving The Moral Implications For Later Common Consideration, Or At Most For Summary Inferential Discussion.

The Five-year Mean Global Temperature Has Been Flat For The Last Decade

Several Times In Earth's History, Rapid Global Warming Occurred, Apparently Spurred By Amplifying Feedbacks. In Each Case, More Than Half Of Plant And Animal Species Became Extinct. New Species Came Into Being Over Tens And Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years. But These Are Time Scales And Generations That We Cannot Imagine.

I Tend To Be Naive And Gullible, I Guess, But I Try To Believe That Governments Believe What They Say.