Althought I am not a true believer, I am not as skeptical about GW as most here on FR. I DO believe that "something" (some warming perhaps) is going on, and that at least some of it (warming) MAY be due to CO2 that man has created, and that it MIGHT portend some dire consequenced (although I dont see even the worst case as being that bad, we adapt, as usual). My whole problem with the GW "movement" is just that, its science turned into a religious/philosophical/ethical movement. The whacko's have taken front and center, and any reasonable response has been relegated to the fringe. The damned greenies have ruined a great area of study (climatology).I don't disagree with anything you have said. The problem is the "mights" and "mays." There is not nearly enough data to support the humans cause global warming position at this point. It could be true. It could be false. We have no way of knowing. It is a conjecture, at best. Give me any conjecture and I can build a model that 'proves' it on a computer screen, so long as I do not have to validate the model against reality.
So the real question is: Do we shut down our economy and turn power over to the little Eco-Stalins because of maybes. The question answers itself to any reasonable person. But if one is an Eco-Stalinist, the answer seems to be equally clear.
So the real question is: Do we shut down our economy and turn power over to the little Eco-Stalins because of maybes. The question answers itself to any reasonable person. But if one is an Eco-Stalinist, the answer seems to be equally clear. Exactly. I am all for further study, and "keeping an eye on things", and if it ever gets to the point where we know we have to do something, then lets do it. However, I think we are still quite far from that point.