BW,
You are clearly skeorical.od climate change.. What evidence would you need tomget you to change your mind, and accept Climate Change. If the answer is none, aren't you the "denier" the Climate Change proponents say you are?
And even if some of the claims and predictions are wrong, does that always mean Climate Change proponents are completely wrong? Climate Change predictions could be wrong sometimes, but that not necessarily mean that its fundamenral premise is wrong. If the world isn't warming as fast as claimed, if doesn't automatically mean ir isn't warming, only that it will take longer to see the dire predictions claimed
Some facts to ponder:
1. Glaciers around the world have dramatically been greatly reduced in size when you compare rhem wirh photographs from the early 1900's. That is not speculation, it is fact. Now we can speculate other cause for the melting (soot from China calling on them and changing their abedo. For example), but warming remains the simplist answer.
2. Maybe the Climate Change people are wrong. What would be the worst that could happen if we act as if what they say was true? Higher electric bills, maybe, spending a little extra money we didn't have to? And if they are right. We could avoid some very serious consequences. We spend money for car and house insurance that we hope we will never need, so think of the money spent on global warming like thr money spent on an insurance policy.
3. Isn't the switch to recyxlables and green power a good idea? Sooner or later we will run out fossil fuel, if not wirhin 50 years, maybe within 500 years, or a thousand years. Since the shift to recyclable green power is inevitable, why not do it now? Isn't it extremely selfish to use up all the fossil fuel that took the earth 4 billion years to make in just a few generations?
The Roman empire lasted a 1000 years, and I don't know about you, but I hope our Civilization will still be around a 1000 years from now. Shouldn't we be starting now to create a sustainable society that could last a 1000 years, 2000 years?