I'd actually say the fact that the free market seems to be trying extremely hard to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming may be the single biggest strike against it.
Or at least, it's my impression that the free market is the guilty party here. I'm curious if you think it's due to state-sanctioned monopolies... there's probably a decent argument for it.
Well, you assume that those who would attempt to discredit the "consensus" are doing it only out of free market ideologies and not out of legitimate scientific dissent. Which I will allow you to do, so long as you admit it's no more or less legitimate than my repeated observations that the main body of people who seem really concerned about climate change are the same people who have always been arguing for oppressive global government anyway.
It's just one big giant coincidence that every scientist who favors the free market doesn't believe in AGW but every scientist who is a giant socialist does!
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