“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” (“Global Warming Petition Project,” www.petitionproject.org, 2015)
That statement has been signed by 31,487 American scientists, including 9,029 with PhD’s.
I love that quote.
Last night my better half made a really good point: "David why does this settled science bug you so much?"
Three reasons.
#1 Believing something just because someone else believes it just blows me away. Science is when someone has a theory, comes up with ways to test this, publishes their results and other scientists conduct tests and get the same results. The scientific community has been wrong in the past and even forced out ideas for years the eventually proved to be right. Why can't we learn from this?
#2 Global warming now climate change looks like a power grab and it's going to cost trillions which will once again screw over the poorer nations.
#3 Lastly and more importantly it takes our eye off what we should be focused on. Massive pollution created by developing and poor counties continues at a levels that are literal killing people and the planet. I'm not talking about hidden pollution such as heavy metals... which is also a huge problem... I'm talking air you shouldn't breath, soil that is so polluted nothing will grow and rivers that you can't swim.