Jesus, people never learn to lay off the earth and climate topics around here. Nobody listens to the scientists, it's all opinion and hearsay.
Let me lay out some of the current facts in the scientific community again.
1.The average temperature of the earth has risen since the 1950's and at an accelerated rate since the late 1990's
2.We have over doubled the current CO2 in Earth's atmosphere since 1850
3.Global Ice cover has melted at an accelerated rate since the early 2000's
4.Earth is currently in an Icehouse condition (We have ice at the poles)
5. The mid-Holocene Younger Dryas 5,000 years ago was much warmer than today
6. The Industrial Revolution began at the end of the Little Ice Age and is a terrible place to compare what levels of atmospheric gases "Should be"
7. In a colder climate like the late Pleistocene (12 ka) giant equatorial forests like the Amazon were 1/4 their current size
8. Grassland and prairie sequesters 4 times more carbon than a forest and carbonate platforms even more
9. The strongest greenhouse gas is water vapor followed by methane then CO2
Now let's take a little look at long term vs. short term. Here is a graph of climatic variability for most of the history of complex life on earth vs. the last 200 years.
And earth's climate variability has to do with many orders of cycles superimposed on one another. If you feel like doing some research on the subject look up 1st order cyclicity, 2nd order, 3rd order, and 4th order (Milankovitch cyclicity)
So do some research and make an informed opinion. Climate variability just during the occupation of the planet by humans has been tremendous. Remember folks, in the 1970's people were worried about "Global Cooling". Take a look at the whole picture.
Some of this warming trend is our fault but certainly not all of it. How much is what many of your tax dollars are doing finding out. Doing things "Green" is smart if it is cost-effective (metal recycling, co2 scrubbers) and saves resources. But you are not going to "save the planet" by doing it. It will take a hell of a lot more than us to kill the planet. Remember kids conservation, not preservation.
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PS- Wind power is BS. Even with the government paying half the cost to put in a turbine, it takes almost 30 years for the thing to produce enough power to pay itself off. That's not counting service to the machine during that time. Not that I care, they payed plenty well to put turbines up on one of our farms. IMO the way to go is fast-breeder fission and fusion.