I&#x27;m a climate change skeptic and what would convince me is<p>- less trying to convince people<p>- less calls to action<p>- less promotion of the tiny irrelevant bad things that it&#x27;s doing<p>- less hiding of the good things it&#x27;s doing<p>- more promotion of engineering solutions<p>The fact that the media presentation of it is so clearly biased in these ways makes me automatically distrust it. I know they&#x27;re trying to mislead people, and you surely do too. Why would you believe someone who you know is trying to deceive you?<p>We have no reliable predictions of any serious consequences of global warming. According to the IPCC, it&#x27;s not going to be a big deal within 100 years. Beyond that time frame, there&#x27;s plenty of opportunity for us to adapt, fix it, or be wrong in our predictions.<p>The current estimate for sea level rise is about 70cm by 2100. That won&#x27;t flood very much at all. A few sandbars, sprawling beaches and already-flood-prone river deltas, but not many actual cities. New York for instance won&#x27;t be flooded by a 70cm sea level rise even though it was flooded by a recent hurricane. 70 cm is smaller than regular tide heights, smaller than wave heights, it&#x27;s just not very significant for most coastal cities. Where it is significant, they can just build more land. I come from a city which has metal plaques on the road in the middle of town saying &quot;this is where the shoreline used to be&quot;. We can just modify our shorelines with earthworks.<p>The current estimate for temperature rise is 2-6 degrees C by 2100. 6 degrees is the extreme case and probably won&#x27;t happen, so maybe we get 3 degrees. What will that do to agriculture? I don&#x27;t know, but we do know that food grows over a much wider range of climate across the world so it can&#x27;t completely destroy it. Furthermore, it will come gradually, giving farmers many decades to adapt. What will it do to people directly? Nothing because it&#x27;s negligible compared to daily and seasonal variations.<p>More tropical diseases? People in the tropics already suffer from those and we don&#x27;t care about them today so why would we care about other people having them in the future?<p>More severe storms? We already have severe storms and construction in high risk areas is designed to cope with them. We&#x27;ll just adjust the building codes as the risk changes.<p>Worried that people won&#x27;t adapt until it really hurts them? No, property owners won&#x27;t want to be left holding the bag when their land becomes worthless, so the market will sort that out. Whoever&#x27;s farm stops producing or whoever&#x27;s house get washed out to sea pays for it out of their own pocket so they&#x27;ll be strongly incentivized to protect it or sell it long before that happens.<p>So this is my concern with global warming - yes it&#x27;s happening and man-made or not, it probably won&#x27;t hurt us enough to worry about. There&#x27;s no room for that position in the 2-extremes view of the debate.