I think you have that turned around, most of us “skeptics” have no agenda (I have yet to receive a check from anyone nor is my career at stake). On the other hand I see agenda throughout the AGW camp (Gov’t grants, censure, green-tech investment, socialism, public speaking, organization influence).
I have been followimg this for almost 20 years. In this time, the following points have become clear to me:
1) The case for CO2 as the primary driving force in climate change is extraordinarily weak and overemphasized.
2) There is a huge economic “punishment” factor in all proposed climate “fixes” which will yield virtually no results, yet cripple economies.
3) The climate community overstates their knowledge of climate forcing factors and over-sells the surety of their predictions.
4) Climate models are GIGO
Bottom line:
Based on 20 years of what I seen, heard, and read from the AWG community, I’m not willing to bet the farm on the half-assed science.
