There is the science, and there are those that deny the facts and in doing so do great harm to the human race… those are the two parties in question here-

It’s not hard to understand how they sold climate denial to a population that’s also overwhelmingly religious and believes in ghosts and that Jesus rode a dinosaur and a rising tide lifts all boats.

Harder to explain actions of the elite that manipulated the useful idiots. Short term gain obviously pulls one way, but I’d also expect the new aristocrats to be thinking in dynastic terms. Won’t they think of the heirs?

I’m afraid there are no answers to that question that don’t sound crazy-eyed paranoid.

You know, RL, the fact that we’ve drifted into pure politics, and ought to move to Current Events, suggests a new rule for Space/Science: Climate change denial is a political rather than scientific position, and all such assertions belong on Current Events. All hail the trial balloon?

While a few useful idiots still regurgitate the dogma that AGW is some commie plot, and that we only have Al Gore’s word for it – it is clear the entities that fed them these lies KNEW better…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

For those that claim the scientists and NASA are somehow cashing in by engaging in a conspiracy to sell the idea of AGW, that is completely delusional. Exxon profits in 2012 were ~45 Billion dollars-

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/01/news/companies/exxon-mobil-profit/

NASA’s entire budget is less than half that… Denying the fact human emissions are warming the Earth is no more valid than the Flat Earthers claims, or those claiming we never landed on the moon… the fact that they have to resort to the slanderous and laughable claims of a vast conspiracy demonstrates just how for from reality they have become.

We all will suffer the consequences for this malfeasance and stupidity, but it will be the poorest of the world that will suffer disproportionately… so its not really Karma… its a crime.

I like the idea of corporate capital punishment for environmental crimes against humanity.