Do you guys really believe that "global warming" is just a catch phrase created by people in government?
Forget what every politician in history has ever said about global warming. Forget the $$$ based arguments. Forget all the rhetoric.
Think about it in simple, common sense terms.
Every single year during the last century, worldwide, the total acres of carbon filtering, oxygen producing woodland has been reduced. Dramatically.
At the same time, the world's population has increased. Dramatically. So has our consumption of fossil fuels. In 1900 the worldwide CO2 emmissions were estimated to be roughly 45K million metric tons. The 1995 estimate was 931K million metric tons.
Stats link:
http://pdf.wri.org/wr98_ac3.pdf
Through air samples trapped in ice, scientists have established that super-volcano eruptions, singular events, have released enough CO2 to alter global weather for decades or centuries.
The earths weather is cyclical. It gets hotter and colder. The seas rise and fall. Deserts become rainforests, oceans become plains. These things happen, many times in relation to the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere. But they happen so slowly that we can only see the evidence of it by reviewing tiny clues left behind. Now we're adding fuel to the fire of the natural cycles.
So how is it possible that we can pump enormous levels of CO2 into our atmosphere, while lowering the amount of trees available to filter that carbon, and not see any effects from our actions?
I'm not trying to preach. I'm certainly not interested in the politics of this argument. I'm as guilty for contributing to the problem as the next guy.
But to say that the problem does not exhist, simply because you dont want to believe it, is foolhardy.
I stand behind my original statement. I don't care how unpopular it is, because it's true. There are too many humans on earth. We use too many rescources. We don't think of/understand the consequences of our actions.