Well, at least you are not a climate change twelver. We have only been measuring global temperatures for the past 130 years or so. Climate changes (at times very extreme) has been occurring on our planet for the past 4 billion years. Statistically speaking, not that big of a sample size to come to definitive conclusions regarding man-made impact on the rise of global temperatures.
There is actually evidence within past few years that global temperatures have risen more slowly in the past 15 years despite record greenhouse emissions occurring at the same time. There could be different reasons for that but just goes to show we really don't understand a lot of the variables that go into predicting climate, so much of the models being used are at best speculative.
There is plenty of room for debate and healthy discussion regarding causes of climate change but this climate alarmism "gone wild" coming mostly from the left, coupled with calls for systemic changes of our economy and way of life as the main way of dealing with it smacks of Alinskyite tactics to create crises for political advantage. That is where some of us push back that value and want to protect our individual rights and freedom.
See, this is a post I can get with even if I disagree. In this entire thread, I have not down voted a Single Post, nor have I called any poster any type of name. (Although i did say I hate us sonetimes).
As far as the alarmist mentality, I believe this is also overstated by folks on the right. No one is saying the world is going to end in 50 to 100 years. No. One. We are saying action needs to happen now rather than later bc the consequences to come are going to fundamentally change our way of living, economy, security, and freedoms far more than any perceived changes to come from immediate action.
As for the effects on the economy, theres no evidence showing rapid and tiered action is to going wreck our economy (in fact theres an argument it will create jobs), which is long overdue for an overhaul anyway.
Americas energy apparatus is outdated and archaic. Our infrastructure is trash.Traffic congestion is only getting worse due to horrific transportation planning (which mainly revolves around depleting mass public transport) We're going to have to address these same issues one way or another. If cost effectiveness is the concern, then waiting will only make it more expensive.
There is no reason we should be burning coal for energy in the year 2019. None. Take climate change equation out of the discussion, and it still holds true. These are antiquated technologies that only exist to line the pockets of wealthy elites. I'm not naive enough to think that elites also wont profit off of Green Technologies either, but at least we wont be using the same means of production that the elites did during The Gilded Age.
As for the evidence that temps have dropped the past 15 years, that is bc of weather patterns that moved excess heat into the ocean. The surface temps cooled, but the overall temp still went up which leads to the same effects. Global warming was still (and is) occurring bc of the biosphere.
The most likely explanation for the lack of significant warming at the Earth’s surface in the past decade or so is that natural climate cycles caused shifts in ocean circulation patterns that moved some excess heat into the deep ocean.
www.climate.gov