There are so many genuine environmental problems to worry about. It’s been frustrating to go to scientific conferences and see problems like the die-offs of amphibians, bees, and bats being brushed off as “caused by global warming” by scientists who should know better. Instead of passing everything off as a result of global warming, how about studying the actual problems?
It’s not just that everything is brushed off as a consequence of global warming, but that research funding is directed towards global warming “studies” (which usually take the form of explaining the effects of global warming, instead of ascertaining whether the hypothesis is even correct). We don’t need more money shunted off to theorizing in the absence of empirical data; we need money directed towards finding out why bats in the northeast are dying by the millions from fungal infections.
Well, here’s hoping the global warming skeptics keep raising questions. It’s time to put this red herring behind us and start to focus on the real environmental problems.
I guess part of the problem is that finding out what is killing off frogs, and taking steps to reverse the problem, doesn’t involve forcing everyone to live a more primitive lifestyle.
You’re definitely on to something.