A few enlightening tidbits for you: The term “climate change” is used by scientists (and people who have a clue) instead of “global warming” because it is more accurate to the problem at hand. Yes, overall, the earth is getting warmer, but in the short term that means increased variability in climate for a variety of somewhat complicated reasons you could learn about if you bothered to read up on our planet systems. A super simplified example is the fact that warmer air is capable of holding more moisture, which can mean more snowfall in some places. Some incredibly ignorant people point to increased snowfall and blizzards as “proof” that global warming is false, when in fact it indicates the opposite.

My point is that earth systems are complicated, and while we’re always learning more, the people who have devoted their entire careers to studying our planet’s oceans and atmospheres are all saying the same thing: that earth is getting warmer and that we’re contributing to it. I’m more likely to trust those who actually ARE experts on the topic than a construction guru who probably never took a meteorology class in college, let alone got a doctorate in an earth science field.

The only reason deniers might be told to “shut up” is because they have absolutely no credibility whatsoever to be questioning the conclusions already drawn by thousands upon thousands of climate scientists at the top of their fields. It always cracks me up to see a petition from “scientists” questioning global warming — they all have their degrees in medicine, the social sciences, or biology; All of which are terrifically important fields, but don’t have much to do with climate change. This is like a geophysicist trying to weigh in on the latest research in heart transplants… they just don’t know what they’re talking about.

Even at that time, the scientific consensus was that the world was warming, and that by adding layers to the earth’s blanket of CO2, we were likely to warm it further.

We must also realize that there is plenty to gain from the other side for financial gain, not just those evil evil oil tycoons. There is also the huge gain of the beauracracies that will tax everyone in order to achieve their “purposes”.

Secondly, anyone who looks closely at those who push these bills can see the overwhelming corruption going on behind closed doors. It doesnt take much to tie the peices together.

Lastly, I find it sad that there is no real debate. None publicly at least. The skeptics are instead told to sit down, shut up, and follow the “settled evidence”. That to me is not science. We are witnessing the greatest attempt of control at a global scale (non-military…at least yet) we have ever seen.

Climategate has better legs Copenhagen.

As stated above, the truth will ruin fortunes of either the “non-renewable” or the “renewable” moguls. Both of whom have more to lose than finances. The truth behind global warming, climate change or the next ice age (1970’s) lies somewhere. The truth will never be unearthed, due to the deleting of original scientific information because of “storage limitations”, and the out of context “reporting”.

So, the naysayers have more fuel to add to the “fire” and the upholders have impaired their scientific credibility. Welcome to the solution.