1. I don't have to believe in global warming to know that our elected officials are just the ****** of various big business interests.
2. Rising global temperatures, regardless of any criticisms of the science, are not compelling evidence of a man-made climate disaster. There could be completely natural reasons we don't understand.
3. Until someone not only proposes but ACTS on some meaningful plan to mitigate the danger, all the hand-wringing in the world is ******* worthless.
I follow the 90s band CAKE on Facebook, because I like their music. They have the annoying habit of posting dozens of threads per day pushing some ultra-liberal agenda story with catchy taglines like, "Threat to Freedom? Discuss." Because I'm familiar with their politics, I know that they are fully on board the global warming disaster train, and they're vehemently anti-fracking, so it's doubly frustrating when they also post articles decrying the use of wind turbines or solar thermal power plants because they have a tendency to kill a few birds every year. So, to sum up, they want people to stop burning fossil fuels, but they're also against wind and solar power. So I guess they don't want to make money from putting on big rock concerts with electric instruments and light shows and so forth, either?
In the end, the whole argument comes down to these points for me:
1. The science is not "settled," no matter how many scientists agree, because if it were settled, they could actually explain the causes and effects to a great degree of accuracy, and all we have are vague and unmeasurable dire warnings about what might happen if we don't "do something" (or in some cases, that it's already too late to "do something"). We've been hearing for years or even a decade or more that sea levels will rise to inundate coastal cities, deserts will spread, and a whole bunch of other things that aren't materializing in the predicted timeframes.
2. The scientists are all clearly as much in the pockets of special interests as government officials are in the pockets of businesses.
3. No one understands clearly what needs to be done to stop or reverse the damage, or if that's even possible.
4. No one has proposed any scientifically-backed solutions to the problem.
5. No plan for stopping global warming is likely to be possible without drastic impacts on human civilization (such as a complete moratorium on fossil fuels, which has far-reaching implications).
6. No one in any position of authority is ever going to disturb the status quo, which virtually guarantees that, if we ARE on a path to climate disaster, there are no brakes.
