My Thoughts on Global Warming, or...excuse me..."Climate Change"
The "global warming" or "climate change" issue has become so politicized these days, that it is hard to know who or what to believe. Scientific studies with various claims and counter claims are flying right and left, amidst all sorts of political propaganda and media hype. In such a climate, it's hard to remain objective, or know who or what is correct.
The politically correct line seems to assume that all wildlife and ecosystems will suffer from even a slightly warmer earth, that warming is accelerating and mostly man-made, that we can alter it much by reducing carbon emissions, and that we can do the latter without doing massive economic damage and replacing one problem with another. The evidence for each of these appears equivocal at best.
Many global warming alarmists insist that virtually all scientists accept their views, which is simply not the case. Many thousands of scientists, including a signficant portion of climatologists, paleontologists, and others with relevant training and background, take a skeptical or (excuse the term) a temperate stance on the issue. As evidence, over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition manitaining that there is no convincing evidence that human activity is, or will in the near future, cause catastrophic disruption of the earth's climate, and that any there is substantial evidence that increases in CO2 will actually "produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the earth" (See the Petition Project: http://www.petitionproject.org/).