Another one sees the light - the fraud of AGW

David St. Lawrence writes at Making Ripples. He retired from SUN and now runs a framing shop in rural Virgina. His writings are peppered with anecdotes about the Corporate lifestyle and rural life in Floyd, VA. Always a good read. Today, he writes about the Cargo Cult Science that is Anthropogenic Global Warming:

Activists take advantage of sincere environmentalists
It certainly appears that concerned environmentalists are being misled by activists using cargo cult science.

We have personally been supporting conservation efforts for many years and most of our friends support efforts to preserve wetlands and stop pollution of our waterways. Lately, however, there are too many attempts to hijack sincere environmental efforts and divert money and energy to support political scams.

If a political action group tried to raise taxes for a government program "Save the Jackalopes", most environmentalists would spot the scam immediately.

On the other hand, if politicians create a monstrous program to reduce Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere by calling it a "pollutant", some environmentalists are taken in. This is a scam that is as devious as any Nigerian email.

The "Carbon Dioxide as Pollutant" scam by the Global Warming Climate Change folks is being rebranded as Project 350 which is a stellar example of reliance on cargo cult science.

Publicity-seeking figures criss-cross the country spreading the word that the planet has reached a "tipping point" and a massive joining of hands is needed. Expert PR firms have crafted a campaign that will ease the adoption of legislation that will steer your tax money into eager government hands and private pockets.

David quotes a bit from the Project 350 website and cites a few inconvenient truths which show that the earth has been in a cooling phase for the last eight years (coincidentally, the suns output has been lower than normal for the last couple years) and that far from being a dangerous gas, CO2 is necessary for life on this planet and CO2 is driven by temperature and levels of CO2 track many years after a temperature change. Good to see that a lot of people are not falling for this sub-prime science. It is not really science, it is political power grabbing...