Reply #7: Really???? [View All]

I hate to be untrue to the cause on this one, but this seems absurd. SO FAR we have had very little warming (less than .5 degrees above the natural high in the 1940's and the continuing rise in temperature has gone away for the last 10 years). We have yet to break out of the normal range of natural variability of temperatures. The sea level hasn't risen any significant amount yet - compared to it's rate for the last 10,000 years.
While future climate change may very well eclipse this in the near future, the belief that current changes in climate has caused that much hardship is ridiculous. This sort of hysteria takes away from any real issue we have with climate change. Let's keep our eye on the ball and not get dragged into stupid hyperbole from an extreme side of the debate that will likely alienate many of the people we need to convince of the validity of our views.

Having read the works of the reviewers, they are not mainstream either. Nor are they scientists in the traditional sense. If you wanted to spend $125 Bil a year on the extreme poor, fighting climate change would be a poor use of that money (google copenhagen consensus).

I'm just saying...