Okay, some points of clarification:
First off: my post was an attempt at burying the thread. If you put out a painfully long post with annoying details that have to be considered before responding, there's no need to kick it to jet blast: the thing just dies. So, please, when you see a 2-day-old thread, you're only doing a disservice by punting it with a comment "Why hasn't this been kicked to jet blast?" Why? Because the dang thing's moribund.
Second: There's no doubt it's anthropogenic. And there's no doubt things are headed hotter. The only question now is how bad are we going to let things get, and, arguing from historical evidence, the "least bad" is going to be really nasty. I'm not alarmist about it; just pragmatic.
Third: Yes, politicians do not have our best interests at heart, any more than the idiots who protest aircraft. "Democratically Elected" Politicians, when presented with a problem, will determine that the solution is the action that irritates the least number of people while scoring points with the constituency that cited the problem: to the press and the public, one trillion pounds and one million pounds both get the same typeface. Likewise, most environmental activists will go after whatever's iconic instead of whatever can do the greatest good; and they tend to be biased against anything you can classify under "secrets Man was not meant to know."
So, in other words: just because there are a lot of idiots saying stupid things doesn't make anyone right. There's no need to shunt this thread. Just let it die.