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U.N. climate talks started in Bonn on Monday with demonstrators dressed as camels, birds, trees, a cactus and several polar bears urging delegates to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Alarmist climate modeler Gavin Schmidt tries to convince us to fear trace amounts of carbon dioxide | Salon

[Schmidt] I oscillate between being optimistic and pessimistic. This administration has made very positive statements. But then you look at what people are proposing to do, and how many coalitions we have to get on board to get something changed, it's easy to throw up your hands and say, "We're all going to go the way of the Easter Islanders." Some days I wake up and think that we will, and other days I wake up and think that we won't.

[Q] Which one of those days is it when you hear comments from a scientist like physicist Freeman Dyson, who dismisses climate change as a non-problem?

[Schmidt] It surprises me. The guy's obviously smart, and he's made a career of thinking against the grain and has come up with good solutions to problems in physics. But he's had a strong preference for problems that could be solved just by thinking about them. If you look at the kind of things he didn't go into as a physicist, they required the understanding of complex systems, where there are a bunch of different things going on and it's not amenable to sitting there with a pencil and paper coming up with a new formula.

News Viewpoint: Global warming is a giant scam - South Jersey Life

Global warming is nothing more than a grand hoax, designed by the environmental groups (the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund are the largest with over $173 million in annual revenues and over $275 million in assets) to scare the world into voluntarily giving up fossil fuels and to steal wealth from the most prosperous nation on earth and redistribute it to those of their choosing.