I have no problem with skeptics, my problem is with the blanket labeling of science as politics when you disagree with the conclusions the scientists come up with.
I think maybe I can prove that this has disintegrated into politics and that it was inevitable.
Assume there is a political conspiracy to increase their power and create new taxes and that they are using global warming to get to this.
If so we would see a lot of reports, worried politicians and worried scientists (which we would also see if it was real) what we wouldn't see are solutions that aren't politically feasable (say banning cars) but maybe necessary if we are to prevent the climate change and we wouldn't see solutions that don't try to clamor peoples freedom (say putting up mirrors in the ocean to send some of the suns rays back out into space) but might work (IANACS so I don't know if it works).
So far what I have seen matches with what I would then expect.
People often claim that the skeptics are merely stuges paid by the oil companies - but what does that make of those scientists who are paid by the government? This isn't even talked about.
Basically my guess is that the movement significant amounts of money entered the scene science became impossible. Scientists won't share their data because there are grants and money and jobs at stake, they are willing to use underhand tatics to prevent dissenters from publishing (because there are jobs and grants and careers at stake).
I think maybe you don't understand what the word "prove" means.
> and we wouldn't see solutions that don't try to clamor peoples freedom (say putting up mirrors in the ocean to send some of the suns rays back out into space) but might work (IANACS so I don't know if it works).
Actually, solar mirrors or similar space structures have been proposed. The main reason they aren't part of the dominant current recommendations is that they are very high-risk, in terms of engineering, compared to the existing short- and long-term mitigation recommendations, and also that many of the existing mitigations mitigate other risks that share common causes with AGW but which solar mirrors don't.
