[gridlock]

We will soon get to the point where Global Warming advocates start to admit that we “can’t be sure” that Global Warming is happening, but we also can’t be sure that it is not. They will then point out, completely without shame, that we should all be reducing our CO2 output for other reasons, anyway.

The Green Weenies have advocated for reduced fuel consumption and increased fuel efficiency since long before Global Warming was even a theory. The theory supported exactly what they were advocating all along. Remove the theory, and they will go back to where they were in the first place, with the added benefit that many, many people now accept Global Warming as a given.

Thus the ratchet clicks one more click. Un-clicking that ratchet is going to be a bear.

[syriacus]

They will then point out, completely without shame, that we should all be reducing our CO2 output for other reasons, anyway.

Yes.

[Trunk 71-74]

Actually, during the 70s and the period of "We-are-going-into-another-Ice-Age" talk and articles, the Greens were pushing for reduced fuel consumption and increased fuel efficiency because of the earth's supposed cooling! What total doofi (the approved plural of doofus).

[agere_contra]

We will soon get to the point where Global Warming advocates start to admit that we “can’t be sure” that Global Warming is happening

Global Warming is a fact. It's Anthropogenic Global Warming that is nonsense. I know many posters on FR use GW rather than AGW as a form of shorthand. However the world really does seem to be in one of its periodic warming periods at the moment - so we should be careful to frame the debate on the correct grounds.