gfp927z, don't take my editorial as a personal attack, there are a few issues that I understand well and it really chaps my hide when nonsense is passed off as fact, especially in semi-literate publications like Forbes. Editorial below:
Climategate was total BS. A manufactured crisis as real as the stolen election. And, that nonsense was settled a decade ago. The author, Charles Kadlec is, (or more likely was), a conspiracy nut. Forbes should be ashamed but of course they're not. They're just a generally substandard group of editors and writers trying to make a living publishing mostly drivel with a sprinkling of hogwash.
Big oil are not the bad guys. They provide a product that allows us to continually grow our economy until we have better, less climate harming products to do the same. If there's a bad guy it's us eight billion humans demanding that we live better lives while ignoring that the sheer number of us and the general affluence and apathy are the problem. The earth is apparently not big enough to sustain us in the life style to which we've become accustomed.
The answers are not simple but they are straight forward; worldwide carbon budgets on consumers and producers, and taxes to fund carbon mitigation projects. I don't see any path to that end. McKibben and Hansen's idea that we should limit CO2 to 350 ppm seems almost quaint. We'll be at 450 ppm shortly after the end of the decade.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. - WB
