Welcome to my blog, Steve!

I believe that there is no question that human generated factors are having an influence on climate, I’m just rather doubtful that we are the only or even the main cause of the current changes. Your article points out a lot of the same things that make me doubt that human factors are the only cause. Regardless, there is no doubt in my mind that we (humanity) absolutely must start taking steps to reduce the damage we cause.

Mostly, my post was a bit of frustration with the current weather situation near my home (which seems less about warming and more about cooling). And it was a jab at the folks pushing more fear and panic upon us, this time regarding the weather and pollution. Fear numbs the mind, and a constant state of fear turns the population into easily controlled sheep- which is what I think a lot of this is about. Unlike you, I don’t think I’d fault someone for saying “let’s spend some more money on understanding the problem”. I guess it would depend on what kind of study that money was going to fund.

Yes, the climate is changing, and yes, human-generated pollution has some impact on it and we should start reducing that impact. Given my preferences, we’d be taking a third of the military budget each year and spending it on disconnecting our countries from the petrochemical teat and lowering the pollution output of our society. Regardless of global warming, I think it is long past the time for that. But no, it isn’t time to give up all of our technology and live in caves…