“you’ve also indicated that your perspective is closely tied to your economic self-interest. I don’t mean any disrespect.”
Yes, you mean disrespect. You would like to show I am this horrible selfish capitalist. That’s part of the progressive claim to moral high ground. Excuse me for appearing selfish to you. I am trying to protect myself and many other sincere seekers from being scammed. Pardon me for not wanting to be generous towards scammers.
“at the end of the day, we drink someone’s Kool-Aid”- I feel say that you view life so void of facts and truth to consider it all cool-aid, one side or another. I think there is plenty of nutritious liquid out there to be found.

Chad ” I have to trust that there’s more integrity in the scientific community” No you don’t have to trust this community. I don’t want to “trust” (believe) in the scientific community because this turns it into a religious reality of placing your faith in something. You must check out their assumptions, logic path, source of facts, if in deed they are facts or mere theories, and the philosophical bias of those involved. Far Side has a great comic about scientific peer pressure. He shows how ugly it is. To have the freedom to see the crap said to be fact by scientists does not mean you are in favor of eco-distruction. To drink in everything said to be eco is not a necessary path to care for the earth. There is no need to “what-if-they-are-right” reduction of thought or throw in “fear-for-my-kids”. This has nothing to do with the data involved.

The environmental crisis is more than climate change. It includes nuclear energy and the waste it creates. It also includes war which we are trying to avoid with Iran.

It is possible scientists are making it up but I would put my money on the billions made off ecological degradation inspiring stupid rhetoric and reasoning like yours.

Thanks for visiting. I have to trust that there’s more integrity in the scientific community than that. But ignoring their findings when they’re telling the truth would be a much bigger mistake than transitioning to renewable energy and it turns out they’re wrong. If the scientists are right, one day our kids will either thank us for doing the right thing, or ask us why we thought we could afford to do nothing. I’m not going to debate with you about science – in fact, I hope you’re right. But we can’t afford not to act now.

And, talk about a money pit…nuclear will cost taxpayers trillions more than renewables.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nuclear-power-could-cost-trillions-2009-06-19

Here is a bogus statement from the “study”: “Efficiency and renewable energy technologies are ready today to power our economy with carbon-free electricity,” said Steve Clemmer, UCS Clean Energy Program.” If it was ready it would not need cap and trade to boost it.

Did you catch Obama’s gaff/hypocrisy that Iran has a right to have nuclear power but he won’t allow Americans to build more carbon-free nuclear power plants?

The climate is guaranteed to change no matter what we do. Every environmental science shows us it always has. There is no consensus in the scientific community, only scientists driven by political peer pressure suck up to it.