//"The merchants of doom need to be shut up though"
ominous//
It's no more ominous than trying to stifle debate in the other direction, which is entirely what the "experts" keep doing. I watched a bit of telly yesterday and every "expert" who was wheeled out sang from the same hymn sheet:
"The government must do something [basically, what I say they should]....they must do it now"
"Every day they dither means [insert whatever number you fancy here followed by an many noughts as you like] deaths."
There are plenty singing an alternative version, but we hear not a peep. For my liking there are too many occasions in this country where contrary opinion, on a number of topics, is viewed as heresy. Because you don't like what you hear that is no reason why you shouldn't hear it.