Unfortunately, reality disagrees:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/sun-earth-connections/
But hey, I'm sure all the scientists that think otherwise are part of a massive governmental conspiracy. The fact that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have risen by ~33% (From 280ppm to 379ppm) since industrialisation can't have anything to do with rapidly increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
It's not necessarily a government conspiracy. It is, however, an extremely useful tool to get big government measures passed.
Also, maybe that was just a bad sentence on your part, but yes, CO2 emissions increasing leads to more CO2 concentrations. However, according to
Pravda (as opposed to our propaganda machine, the New York Times, lol), we're entering a cooling period. Here in New England for example, the default climate was "a mile below ice" for tens of thousands of years. This was long, long before humans could muck things up. As a matter of fact, humans thrive in warmer climates. Humans expanded in great numbers in the medieval warm period.
Let alone, say, methane, or any of the other greenhouse gases.
Sure, it won't be an apocalypse. But it will hurt a lot of countries, some of them quite poor, and it will hurt agriculture.
You're a poor student of history if you think warming (which is theoretically caused by CO2) will in any way "hurt agriculture." Plants, like humans, thrive in warmer temperatures. You want to kill off vegetation, get yourself an ice age. That'll pretty much destroy every tree north of the Canadian border, what with being crushed by an impossibly heavy glacier. As far as hurting "poor countries," poor countries are poor because generally speaking their leaders are corrupt, they live off of foreign aid, and they live in tribalistic, backwards cultures. Robert Mugabe turned Rhodesia, which was otherwise fairly prosperous, into a financial sinkhole with 1,000,000+% inflation. Why? Because he decided kicking out the white farmers in his 75% black country was a higher goal that feeding his nation.
Poor countries get no sympathy from me. Climate is the
least of their problems. Going back to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, the reason they now have to import food instead of providing it to their neighbors is because a tin pot dictator seized power. Not because of "climate change" or anything other than a corrupt megalomaniac with a self-serving agenda.
Australia is particularly badly affected. We're already in the middle of a 'drought' that's lasted so long it may as well be our default weather - which may or may not have been influenced by the increase in average global temperature, I don't know what scientists think on that particular issue - I'd like it not to become much worse.
Like I said. In New England our default climate was "locked under a mile of ice" for tens of thousands of years. Inhospitability is climate neutral. if it gets too cold, glaciers wipe out polar dwellers. If it gets too warm, deserts expand in equatorial regions.
And all of this occurs without a shred of human intervention, inexorably, throughout the planet's history.
Good to see somebody remembers that particular line.
Well, I wouldn't be a very good practicing Catholic if I didn't at least remember the line basically telling us not to waste our energy predicting the second coming. It could come as I type this, or 2,000 years from now when I am long dead.
Now, had we lived in an alternate universe where every thief always comes in the night at 3AM every Tuesday, then I'd be pretty concerned for my salvation every Monday night. Or at least, lock my doors and windows.
