Climate science agreement shifts public views

Most climate scientists, more than 97% , agree that burning fossil fuels leads to global warming. Learning that makes people more likely to call for action to address a changing climate, reports a public opinion team.

..."When presented with information about the impacts of global warming and told that scientists had definite evidence [like what, specifically?] for these projections, participants' levels of concern about climate change increased significantly," says the study.

Why Climate Change Won't Be Solved with U.N. Summits - TIME

top down is not the way things actually work, and after stalling and kicking the real debate down the road for the past 17 years, we've run out of time.

The moral climate

Climate change is not primarily a moral issue; it is a scientific issue with moral implications. To put the moral issues first is to risk corrupting the science, since moralism tends to crowd out objectivity and lead to a closing of ranks. The potentially corrupting influence of moralism on science is itself a critically important area of scientific study. Ironically, however, it is one that may be neglected because of the strong left-liberal bias of the academic community.

Daily Maverick :: COP17: The 'party on' agenda

The objective of the Durban conference is what economists call “regulatory capture” and “rent seeking”. Most of us will recognise it as crony capitalism, corporate lobbying or the “pigs at the trough” phenomenon.

This is the process by which you hijack the legislative and fiscal power of the state to enrich your own special interests and it is as old as politics itself. Merchants once sought the favour of Roman emperors. Rail-road pioneers bribed politicians to sell rights-of-way and raise massive “public investments”. Inefficient companies lobby for competition law to launch anti-competitive assaults against more efficient competitors.