The fact that you replied and completely understand the point of my post says it all. No one knows what the climate will bring tomorrow much less in a month or a year. Al Gore is famous for having said around 2005 that the oceans would all dry up by 2015 and now won't respond to questions about his statement. And further a few months after making that statement he bought a $7 million ocean front house in California. Further, the legitimate climate data confirms that there has only been something like a 0.5 degree change in the average temperature in the last 30 years. Not to mention that if the climate got a couple of degrees warmer all it would mean is that food crops could be grown further north or south than they currently are and would help feed the world with the new tillable land.
Weather is unpredictable. Climate is a lot more predictable. Do you know the difference between the two?
I do not care about what Al Gore did or said. If you do not trust the predictions, at least check what has happened in the last 100 years and compare that to what had happened thousands of years before. It's documented... not predictions.
And as I said before, most of you do not grasp the real problems associated with climate change. YEs, an increase in 1 or 2 degrees, on average, seems little. But that is the average. Have you looked at what happen with variation around the mean, in other words, the extremes? Far more problematic.
Also, where will those species living in polar regions go if it warms?
Also have you thought about potential mismatches? Species are not responding all at the same rate.
What if warming causes plants to grow further north but not bees? no pollination.
What if some animals hatch earlier than their food? starvation
What if flower blooms occur earlier than pollinators hatch?
and so on.
There is now so much compelling evidence from so many areas of the science that denying climate change just feels stupid... sorry.
And yes, we can tackle global problems. Or are you saying that mankind is not clever enough to put some alternatives to fossil fuels... There's plenty of alternatives already. What we are missing is the final kick which has been hampered by those that make their profit from oil and the like.
Do you remember about the ozone hole, caused by the use of CFCs. Problem solved, the hole is still there of course (it will take some time to close), but it is decreasing. Did you change your way of life?
You can keep denying, and the USA seems to be doing a good job at that (at least now). What happens is that everyone around is changing. Hell, the Emirates are using oil money to build green cities and investing on clean sources of energy. China too. USA? Ignore it and you'll be an island in no time...
