Before you answer this question I'd like you to watch this movie.
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/great_global_
warming_swindle.htm
This movie completely changed my mind, I've seen 'An Inconvenient Truth' several times and even went to see Al Gore in person when he came to my hometown, he gave a presentation 'After An Inconvenient Truth' where he basically went through his whole slideshow and mentioned just a few other pieces of scientific data.
I was completely convinced that he was right, and that Global Warming was the real deal.
After watching this movie, my eyes are open! Now I believe that Al Gore grossly misrepresented the issue for his own monetary profits, to advance his political agenda, and other personal agendas (I'm not talking from a conservative view, I would have preferred Gore to Bush in office).
One notable thing is when he is showing the relationship between temperature and Co2, he says the relationship is 'complicated', and yes, they do fit together, but he never mentions that Co2 FOLLOWS temperature by 500 to 800 years, meaning, first temperature rises, THEN Co2 rises, the reason is because the oceans contain the majority of Earth's Co2 and it literally takes them hundreds of years to warm up when temperatures rise, when they warm up, they evaporate more, thus releasing more Co2--- but Co2 does NOT cause the temperature to rise.
#1.For one thing, there are many cases in which there was a LOT more Co2 in the atmosphere than there is now, even 10 times more, and temperatures were not much affected.
#2. People are not the biggest cause of Co2, Volcanoes release more than all humans and all industry combined, animals release more than volcanoes, plants release more than animals, and the oceans release more than all of them. So the idea that humans are causing huge Co2 levels is ridiculous.
#3. There is an extremely small amount of Co2 in the atmosphere anyway, just a few parts per million, and a very small percentage of atmospheric gases are greenhouse gases, thus their temperature effect, especially compared to solar radiation and cloud cover is very minute.
#4. There are times in history when the globe was much warmer than it is now and the end of the world never happened.
#5. The link between industry and rising temperatures doesn't fit, most of warming happened between 1900 and 1940, 1940 to 1970- the post war 'boom', which had about the most intensive industrial action ever, temperature was actually getting cooler, total warming for the 20th century was about .5 degrees Celsius, or .9 degrees Farenheit (which is not that significant, on a comparative historical basis).
#6. Different species, like the polar bears for instance, survived warmer temperatures in the past, coral reefs dying is linked to pollution, but probably has more to do with the ph of the oceans changing (because of pollution).
#7. As far as glaciers and ice caps go, including the 'disappearing' arctic ice cap, they have always fluctuated and are in a constant state of change, many experts say there is absolutely nothing alarming about today's situation.
So basically, much of the 'science' presented by Global Warming campaigners is totally bunk, and has its actual roots in propaganda, sensationalism, political agendas, industry, and beurecratic profiteering. ---
The sick part is, it is a huge force in keeping developing countries from developing (by stunting their industrial growth). Meanwhile 2 billion people are without electricity and barriers are being put up to prevent them from ever getting it, because of this Global Warming fiasco, millions of people die every year because they have to cook with fire in their homes, they die from cancers and other diseases caused by breathing smoke, or just straight up carbon monoxide poisoning-- indoor smoke is the DEADLIEST form of pollution in the world-- because they don't have access to cleaner energy.
All this, and Global Warming sensationalists are helping to prevent them from escaping misery, poverty, and death.
Seems pretty sick to me.
What do you all think?