I think it's pretty safe to say that money involved in the climate change network is at least 10 times the money being invested in denier networks.
And frankly the results are equally stupid. The IPCC has released 5 reports. Their predictions were wrong every single time. AR0, AR1, AR2, AR3, the world did not warm anywhere near their 95% predictions. So let's calculate. About one report every 5 years ... 95% "certainty" interval ... that means that if you believe the IPCC "certainty" they have made the mistakes they claim to make in 800000 (20^4 * 5) years, in 20 years.
Question for empiricists : why do you believe in climate change ? The predictions of climate change theory, as compiled by the IPCC, are falsified. It SHOULD be that simple.
Needless to say, color me in the "chaotic climate change" camp. I don't say it's not gotten warmer but I do say :
1) You cannot predict the effect of energy additions to a chaotic system. It may get colder as a result (and it has). Climate change theory only works on a planet in thermodynamic equilibrium, in other words, it would work on the moon. It doesn't work on the earth. A famous paper was published in 1962 with a proof that climate was chaotic, and that should really have been the end of any prediction.
2) The fact that it's chaotic means that there is no reasonable (finite, non-omniscient) way to predict climate evolution.
3) As a matter of principle, and organisation that publishes wrong predictions 4 times in a row should be laughed out of office, and out of funding. I think that this didn't happen indicates we just really, really, really want to believe climate change is happening and is human-caused.
