Where's Chinook?

I'll bite:

...Or perhaps the public are weary of the same kind of reactionary hyperbole that Manthorpe makes much use of in this article, equating concern about our contribution to climate change with religious fanaticism.

Just because no one wants to hear your thoughts doesn't mean there's a media conspiracy against you. You may be just dead wrong. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

No, we call the "con trick" in that equation "the War on Terrorism" around here. But seriously, "fundamentalist environmentalists?" Again, nice try at comparing the ideals of the environmentalist movement to religious zealotry. Reductio ad Hitlerum.

I'm surprised that people are surprised.

I think the single most important thing to note is that Plimer, like almost every earth/enviro scientist, agrees that the climate is changing. Plimer's position is fairly consistent with most geologists I've met, who consider a timeline of a few hundreds of years to be almost negligible.

I would like to meet this Plimer. He sounds like someone with whom I'd get along.

I found the article to be a bit misleading, as I've encountered countless books and articles by authors and scientists who support the idea that climate change is varying degrees of natural, and they don't seem repressed by an angry mob of enviromentalists. Then again, this is the Sun. I really ought to know better than to expect much more :)

But any article that demonstrates that the scientific community agrees in unity that the climate is changing is a good thing, IMHO. It just makes the people who think the climate isn't changing look bad for not doing enough research.