Question, Is climate change real or not? Answer, absolutely.
Question,What is driving it? Answer, same thing that drove it for the last several million years, nature. The evidence is there if the environmental whackos would simply open their eyes. Satellite imaging shows that a few thousand years ago the Sahara Desert was green, with lakes and rivers. And there is coal under Antartica. So clearly things were changing years before man crawled out from under a rock. Even more recently, we find wooley mamoths ranging over the arctic. But something happened, it turned colder and they went extinct. But later it also warmed up a bit, because we also know the Scandinavian explorers who reached North America had self sufficient colonies growing food supplies in Greenland (And why is it called GREENland anyway if it has always been covered in ice?) We had the mini ice age in the 1700s, and now its warming back up to normal. And the global warming people scream "DISASTER AWAITS!" Surely we must have caused the extinction of the mammoths , the mini ice age, and the warm-up that followed....The few thouand humans alive back then were great manipulators of the climate! Both warming AND cooling!
Do we let them scare us with their hype? Consider, climate change might well be the engine that drives evolution. Example, right now we hear all about how the seal population is dwindling because the polar ice is melting. We must save the polar bears because, well just because. However there's the other side to this. The same warming that is melting the ice is also allowing a larger population of salmon to move farther north. And the polar bears are learning to adapt, just like their cousins the brown bear in the Rockies. They are switching to catching salmon instead of seals! Of course some will not make the switch and they may die. Extinction? Probably not, but maybe the pecking order ill be disrupted, just as it has been anytime conditions change. The wooley mammoths failed to make the change, maybe the bears will fare better.
So waht does that mean for us? We also need to adapt. We have intelligence; we can make changes before the "crisis" forces us to. Sea levels may rise, so we can move our cities farther inland. Or raise them up above the shore a few feet. This is not an urgent thing; simply something done over the next 100 years or so. As a building reaches its end of usefulness we tear it down as we always have. But instead of building where it was we simply put its replacement farther from the coast. We don't spend billions tearing down our cties; instead we "move" them as they mature. If the gobal warmers want to do something constructive they could work toward adaption rather than prvention. But I figure politicians will always be politicians and do the wrong thing. Case in point is New Orleans; how smart was it to build a city BELOW sea level??? Then suffer a disaster when a hurricane hits? (Like Katrina ws the FIRST hurricane the Gulf had ever seen???)
Same goes with farmland. Certainly some of our cropland will be lost to desert. But at the same time new land that was too cold will now become the farm land of tomorrow.. Some animals may indeed fail to make the transition just as they always have. but new species will evolve and adaptations will take their place. Consider those polar bears; they have made the transition in just a few years, not generations. They learn, can we?
We can adapt rather than create panic. Use common sense instead of politicians running around telling us what kind of light bulbs we can buy, what kind of cars we can drive, or bancrupting industry by adding carbon taxes, and other such foolishness. Climate change is nature being nature, and we can adapt or go the way of the mammoth. We didn't cause it and we can't stop it But we can live with it.
Believe it or not I saw daffodils poking themselves out of the ground today.
