The interview lets you listen to Field himself. The role of skeptics and lobbyists is touched upon.

This is seriously garbled. Goodness only knows what they mean to say. If CO2 emissions are increasing by 3.5% per year it is not reflected in the atmosphere. According to the CO2 measuring station on Mauna Loa, Hawaii CO2 in the atmosphere increased from 368 to 385 parts per million from 2000 to 2008, a rate of 0.5% per year. The rate of increase for the previous 10 years from 1990 to 1999 was 0.4%. So there was a 20% increase in the rate of CO2 added to the atmosphere, not 3-1/2 times or more as stated in the story (3.5% instead of less than 1%). The greenhouse effect of CO2 is logarithmic meaning that a 20% increase causes only a 10% warming. Thus slight accelerations of the rate of increase are less important than you might think.