Meanwhile, scores of millions of people are afflicted by climate instability from global heating today, with much worse to come.

Frankly, your irresponsibility and lack of compassion is sickening.

Do you not have children? or a conscience? or a clue?

And note consensus is not the same as the law of the majority.

Hung by your own petard I believe.

(I put forward: “and science” belongs after “conscience”)

The British public have not swallowed your story. I suspect the percentages here would run against you even more.

It is no use just pointing to IPCC reports written by bureaucrats…

Come, now. With language like this:

COâ‚‚ and Oâ‚‚ compete for the reaction sites on the photosynthetic carbon-fixing enzyme, … The strength of the response of photosynthesis to an increase in COâ‚‚ concentration depends on the photosynthetic pathway used by the plant….Plants with the Câ‚„ photosynthetic pathway (tropical and many temperate grasses, some desert shrubs, and some crops including maize and sugar cane) already have a mechanism to concentrate COâ‚‚ and therefore show either no direct photo-synthetic response, or less response than C₃ plants (Wand et al., 1999).

Find me a beurocrat who can understand that, let alone claim to have authored it!

Depending on the nature of that answer, it’s either the “It’s Freakin’ Cold!” argument, or cherry picking a short timescale. Both of these positions deny or ignore the extensive body of knowledge about the world’s weather systems.

It’s hard for ordinary people to have any faith in the dangerous global warming scenario right now. There’s no sign of danger.

Glaciers going from magnificent to piddly within a person’s lifetime. Droughts and severe record-breaking heat spells. Melting permafrost with methane bubbling out from underneath. Long-lived sea ice in the Arctic disappearing. These are all signs, and most people (who are happy to trust the judgment of scientists working in the respective fields) see them as such.

Carter and de Freitas don’t make “arguments”, they misrepresent the facts to attempt to make arguments. Once that’s pointed out, they’re shown up for what they are — crude propagandists becoming ever more shrill in their support of the untenable.