More to the point. Greenhouse production of ornamental plants is a major source of my income. Plants are happiest at about 1500 ppm CO2, and most greenhouse operators actually generate additional CO2 for their plants. Now — big surprise — the long term average CO2 concentration in our atmosphere has been about … 1500 ppm … four times current levels. By long-term I mean about 500 million years or so.

You’ll find that the most vigorous scientific opposition to the whole concept of anthropogenic global warming comes from those of us trained in geology, astronomy, solar physics, and so on — disciplines in which there is a significant focus on the fourth dimension: TIME.

The Arctic Ocean was basically a fresh-water lake until about 20 million years ago. Fifty million years ago it had crocodiles and cypress trees. Now, tel me I should be $#|++ing my pants because of ice cover or ice thickness changes in the last 30 years.

More carbon. Less carbon. It really does not matter. The left, however, have their solution in search of a problem. It’s always the same ‘solution:’ higher taxes, greater regulation, transnational government, and income redistribution. That was their ‘solution’ to hunger, to ‘desertification,’ to poverty, to the status of women, and even to AIDS.

When the AGW thing blows up on them, as it’s doing now, they’ll find some other ‘problem’ requiring the same ‘solution.’ The real issue is power elitism and the desire to control other peoples’ lives.