ANSWER: Are the many hostile efforts toward climate scientists for the sole purpose of shoring-up and building trust in a con game; to support the most colossal pyramid scheme in human history…..a modern version of the ancient Tower of Babel called the Global Political Economy? Only this modern Economic Colossus is not made of stone, but rather built out as a “house of cards”. All of it is a patently unsustainable, gigantic ruse perpetrated by a tiny minority of outrageous consumers, reckless consolidators and relentless hoarders of wealth and power.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
established 2001
http://sustainabilitscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

“The effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is, in my opinion, the most important environmental issue facing the world today.” – Veerabhadran Ramanathan – http://www.amacad.org/publications/bulletin/spring2006/12globalwarming.pdf

“… Upon investigation, it appears that in nontrivial evolutionary models the expected behavior is not always in accord with the norms of the standard theory of decision as ordinarily applied. Many classically irrational acts, e.g. betting on the occurrence of one event in the knowledge that the probabilities favor another, can under certain circumstances constitute adaptive behavior.
One interesting interpretation of this clash is that the criterion of rationality offered by classical decision theory is simply incorrect (or at least incomplete) as it stands, and that evolutionary theory should be called upon to provide a more generally applicable theory of rationality.”
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n1785154342r3415/

“Biologically rational decisions may not be politically possible once investment has occurred.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/315/5808/45

Our children will do better; but first they will need to understand that the patently unsustainable overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities which their elders so adamantly and relentlessly advocate will have to be forsaken….soon. Accepting human limits and Earth’s limitations, and behaving accordingly, could be a goal worth achieving.

Although I think it should say “and we’re locked in the cage with it, and every time we poke, the sticks get chewed shorter.”

“Greenland is deglaciating and actually has been doing so for most of the past half-century.” — Jason Box (Ohio State)