The thing is that even if the Congress fails to pass legislation, and even if the IPCC fails to lead Copenhagen to a resolution, we can't just relax and say we've won. Failure on these items will cost these alarmists billions, if not trillions, and I don't think they're going to take it lying down. I think they're going to heap the pressure on advertisers, and content producers in Hollywood and beyond to ramp up the AGW lunacy in their ads, books, movies, and TV shows. AlGore has made over $100MM on glowball wormin, you can't honestly think he'll stop just on one or two defeats. No on your life. He wants to be the next George Soros and just like Georgie, I have the distinct impression that he'll say or do anything to keep the gravy train rolling. Why just last week, he told a crowd that seas would rise 220 feet by 2050 if we didn't give in to him. 220 feet. Now that's a man-sized lie, if I ever saw one.

Actually the majority of the alarmists can be found in three specific places:

1. Academia

2. The press

3. Government

Sure, if we're stupid enough to pass whatever evil is contained in Waxman-Markey or Boxer-Kerry, there will be some economic winners, but not all of them are alarmists now are they? Many of them are just businesspeople who see an opportunity and they'll take advantage of it if they can. I think they call people like that opportunists, don't they?

But please, I invite you to do some of your own legwork and learn about the rude fates of those in academia who've failed to tow the climate alarmist party line. Oops! No more funding; no more classes to teach; if you were in line for tenure, you're not any more. Careers have been destroyed for simply not towing the party line. I myself got a very cold shoulder at a department of a major university that had hired me for a compensation project. My sin? I declined the offer of free tickets to go to AlGore's upcoming lecture on campus. No editorial comment was made, just a little white lie that I was busy that night. For that I was called flat-earther by half-a-dozen professors. And we never, ever discussed their or my views about climate change at all.

And those who're in a position to distribute funding for research have clearly enriched those who've kissed the ring of AlGore. That goes for academia and government.

Now, here's a very partial list of known alarmists, most of whom have or stand to personally profit from their alarmism through books, lectures, or other deals.

James Hansen

George Monbiot

Joe Romm

Mark Serreze

Rep Markey

Rep Waxman

Sen Boxer

Sen Kerry

Michael Mann

Ross Gelbspan

Andrew Revkin

Sir John Houghton

Stephen Schneider

Shaye Wolf

Lee Kump

Heidi Cullen

Richard Littlemore

Chip Knappenberger

Gavin Schmidt

Tim Barnett

Richard Somerville

Dave Hampton

Ban Ki Moon

Kevin Rudd

Sir Nicholas Stern

Bert Bolin

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Your liberal sensibilities (I know folks, big oxymoron there) may not like it, but there really is a war of money going on over climate – those who want everyday citizens to contribute more money through taxes, fees, fines and other mechanisms to fund another layer of government, this one world-wide. If it all goes through, billions of dollars a year will disappear down the rabbit hole of the UN alone, and even their own IPCC scientists are saying that CO2 control won't solve the problem. But it's going to cost you me and everyone else dearly to pay for the alarmists power and control fantasy. And then there are the national level schemes which will cost even more.

And in the end, nature is still going to be nature, and climate is going to continue doing exactly what it's been doing for 4.6 billion years – change in ways we can't explain, nor control.