I do not agree with Al Gore and company but I know all this research and science will be put to good use in the future once the chaff is blown away. That's pretty much my view. I'm all for the science and all against the ideology.
Put aside the anthropogenic stuff and it is predictable that we will eventually have a severe warming or cooling. That won't be in my lifetime but people will eventually need the science to alleviate or cope with the...dare I say it?...change.
I get excited about geologists traveling to the planets and determining historical solar system warming and cooling trends caused by “space weather” from the Sun. That will improve our understanding of Earth's climate immensely.