Tea baggers have infiltrated every major progressive site and I have to admit

[AverageJoe90]

43. There may be some truth here, though I do have a few caveats.

Climate doomerism, btw, is a difficult thing to explain fully, since it's kinda complex, but I'll tell you this: most of them seem to think that the IPCC is being "too conservative" about everything, and that humanity is at risk from extinction or short term(we're talking in two decades, maybe just one) total global civilization collapse due to AGW, ALONE(the truth is, the former isn't going to happen, and the chances of the latter happening are less than any one of us winning the Powerball lottery in any given year).

There are indeed plenty of questionable agendas around, though, from what I can see, the professional doomsday prophets, like Guy McPherson, David Wasdell, et al. are just a bunch of useful idiots, and well-meaning veterans like Jim Hansen who let loose every once in a while really just needed to vent; the latter group IS NOT even part of the problem, IMO.

Truth be told, in this regard, I'm a lot more concerned about professional deniers like Tony Watts and "Lord" Monckton. Where in the HELL are these guys getting all their influence from, exactly? Is it just Big Fossil, or is there more to it?????