Via the Englishman's Castle, I see the Science Museum did not like the overwhelmingly negative response to their climate change poll.

So they've added a verification step "so that your name can be passed on to the Government". Given that Climate denialism is likely to be illegal soon, there's no way I want to be on a database for carbon gestapo to kick down my door to arrest me for being a "climate criminal". Just like the Irish in the Lisbon treaty, if the righteous don't like the answer, they'll ask again until they get one they do like.


This is despite my not having flown in a year, cycling everywhere and basically accepting that man is responsible for some changes to the climate. I just think that the responses mooted are economic vandalism, yet it is economic growth which will provide the surpluses which allow people to do something about deforestation, clean rivers and particulate pollution - you know ACTUAL environmental damage rather than THE FUCKING WEATHER.

The environmentalists hate the car and always have. Legislation changed, so the car was made so that it actually cleans the air (contrasted with buses which any cyclist will tell you pump out carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons and filthy particulate soot). CO2 was simply taken as a stick to beat the clean car over the dirty bus. The environmentalists want us to don a hair shirt. I'm not a denialist. I just don't believe climate change is going to be catastrophic. Letting the eco-wenies loose on the economy on the other hand....