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I firmly believe that climate change is real and that man is the primary driver of climate change.Yes, I accept the scientists’ evaluation of the data that they have accumulated and analyzed for quite some time. Moreover, scientists from a multitude of disciplines have found data from all fronts that support the thesis that climate change is happening and without a dramatic change in our behavior, our continuous daily actions will have profound effects on our world and apparently it is all for the worse.
Ever since scientists have been discussing their findings and how it tends to point out that our planet is undergoing a shift in climate, many people on the right have tended to disbelieve those findings. My feeling is that, if they accepted that our planet was being affected by climate change, then there would have to be a reason for that change. Scientists have pointed to our negative impact on the global environment due to our pollution producing industries. They have provided charts and tables all indicating that high levels of carbon, methane and other gases are producing an oven like effect on our atmosphere. The result is a hotter planet, which in turn heats the polar caps on both sides of the globe. Those melting caps increase the depth of our oceans which are proving to become warmer. The warmer oceans are in turn generating more hurricanes, tornadoes and severe weather events. This represents a chain of events that show how causal and effects impact our planet.
Actually, the saddest part is that the only species negatively impacted is the human race and the human race is the one responsible for climate change. I know that the earth’s climate has changed greatly over the millenia, my issue is how much we have accelerated the process by pollution and the exploitation of fossil fuels. We have left a colossal footprint on the planet and the morally right thing to do would be to reassess our relationship to fossil fuel and spend our resources developing ecologically and environmentally friendly energy sources.
laurieanichols 
I firmly believe that climate change is real ( No contest )
and that man is the primary driver of climate change
( hubris and scaremongering : aided by representing dissent and ‘denierism’ as anti-scientific instead of being the basis of separating truth from fantasy)
And I fancy myself as environmentally aware, too! I just don’t believe in focusing on any tale that the future has been predicted is anything more than what I enjoyed for years as juvenile recreation : speculative fiction.
What is really amusing is comparing what ‘the IPCC says’ according to many articles circulating bemoaning ‘denierism’ ( which means bitching when somebody yells ‘Hogwash !’ ) is handled in the same fashion as ‘911 denial’ or ‘holocaust denial’…or any other exercise where one party purports to represent everybody’s opinions comprehensively and without bias.
There’s a reason courts aren’t run like that – because the only way to get some viable opinion is to compare and contrast stories and exercise reasonable doubt rather than simply nodding disinterestedly.
I collected such to illustrate how people are lectured to and intimidated rather than invited to search through various scenarios to see what looks most reasonable.Unhappily the file mostly vanished during recent revisions…but I was able to salvage enough material to make it obvious where there were resources to be explored should one wish to do so.
Hopefully http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html will simply fill again with new material. Not that Prof. Chussdofsky at Global Research.ca wouldn’t give one a respectable start all by itself.
An Aussie with similar ideas noted http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647&ei=6KhjS9PZMJvu2ALEj6CjCA&q=the+great+global+warming+swindle#