Advocate wrote:Perhaps the leading theories on global warming are wrong. However, it seems to me that we cannot afford to gamble that they are. Moreover, it would probably benefit us, even economically, were we to limit carbon emissions, etc.
Nobody is seriously questioning global warming at this time as nobody thinks the Earth won't be warming or cooling at any give time. It isn't as if we can just set a thermostat and leave it. But some of us do question the 'sky is falling' scaremongering that is being put out there by such as Al Gore and his ilk. And we do resist making major life changes and/or wrecking havoc on national economies on theories based on what may be very bad science.
The world has done more than it has ever done in reducing greenhouse gasses and (in prior decades) those things that are suspected of causing acid rain, thinning of the ozone, etc. etc. etc. and yet the more we do, the more problem there seems to be. This has to at least open the door to consider whether humankind has any significant measurable effect on the overall climate at all or at least it should keep us researching what, if anything, we do have the power to do. It is ludicrous for everybody to go off half cocked to solve a problem when we don't even know for sure whether there is one and/or whether our solutions will have any effect.
If I find those big gun scientists, movie stars, and people like Al Gore building a spaceship to escape or otherwise doing real, significant action and/or significantly changing their own lifestyles in any serious way, or even advocating more than politically correct mandates, I'll believe they do really believe in AGW as a serious, life threatening problem. Until then, I have to leave room to think there is a strong possibility that it is as much hype as science driving this whole opera.
