In a recently published supposed exposé entitled ExxonMobil’s ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry, Greenpeace USA had this to say about some of the activities from PRI this year:

“PRI Public Policy Fellow Dr. Amy Kaleita released a 2006 report urging governments to move slowly on carbon sequestration, claiming there’s "no conclusive proof of the effects of CO2 on climate change," and any efforts to capture carbon would hurt consumers.”

In quoting from my report “Sense and Sequestration”, Greenpeace leaves out a key half of that sentence, which contains something critical.  This is what I said:

"There is no conclusive proof of the effects of CO2 on climate change, but proving linkages in climate science is difficult, if not impossible."

I do not claim there is no relationship between CO2 and climate change, nor do I ever deny that climate change is real.  I do resoundingly acknowledge, however, that our understanding of precisely what the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 levels will be is full of uncertainty. 

Ironically, it is exactly this high degree of uncertainty that permits “climate alarmists” to warn of even the most far-fetched potential disasters without being laughed out of town by climate scientists.