Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
Well, the global warming sure hit us hard this winter, didn't it?
That's a laughable extrapolation of what climate change, or global warming, or whatever you want to call it, is. Even if it is sarcastic.

That being said, there are benefits as mentioned. And there are dangers, without doubt. What liberals and climate change advocates conveniently leave out for the public is the fact that even absent of humans, the Earth will ebb and flow. Hence the arid, uninhabitable state the earth first saw with a CO2 and vapor atmosphere. Move forward a few billion years, and we've got a planet-wide ice age.
Human chemical consumption is contributing to CO2 in the atmosphere and has other ozone implications, yes. But this idea that if we all walk everywhere and just eat nuts and fruits everything will be hunky-dory is beyond stupid. And even better is the carbon footprint left by coal-powered electrical plants that are-for the time being-powering up Nissan Volts. Or the radiation danger from nuclear plants that will take over in the next decade. How about the chemicals used to manufacture batteries for Toyota Priuses?

I liken it to the following: someone leaves a bag of ice sitting in the parking lot at the grocery store. You park next to it and your exhaust is spitting out onto it. The ice is melting anyway, but then some bleeding heart comes up and shouts at you, accusing you of causing the ice to melt. What you did might've contributed, but it wasn't the cause for that effect.