[neodad]

Only the most committed ideologues still dispute scientific evidence pointing to human activity as the cause of the climate threat

Count me in.

[Yardstick]

Only the most committed ideologues still dispute scientific evidence pointing to human activity as the cause of the climate threat

If this guy were speaking of terrorism he'd probably put "threat" in quotes.

But what's most striking about his statement and a thousand others like it is what obvious propaganda it is. The global warming movement is just one giant public-opinion manipulation machine. They repeat their claims over and over again as though the issue were completely settled while knowing full well that the debate rages. Global warming has exposed the left's true feelings about debate and dissent.

I would love to be a fly on the wall and listen in to the conversations of the movement's elite core. It would be interesting to know if they see global warming as a thing-in-itself or as just a tool to accomplish the classical leftist ends of making life difficult for the corporations and global capitalism and imperialist-capitalist America. My guess is that it's a mixture of both, but I'll bet that as you move upward towards the elite of the movement's elite, you'll find less environmental idealism and more bareknuckle ideological leftism.