The climate is changing, there is no question about that. It's been changing as long as the earth has been and something would be wrong if it did not continue to evolve and change.
Are human beings responsible for the current changes? I suspect we are not helping, but at the same time am not sure we are as high at fault as all the environmental nuts want us to believe.
There's evidence that we came out of a short ice age not all that long ago (within the last few hundred years), and that we may still be on the tail end of that. That ice age is why Leif Ericson was able to cross the Atlantic back when- it probably wasn't as long and treacherous a journey as we believed when we were in elementary school.
My FIL is a weather buff who points out what a short time we've actually been accurately tracking the climate. He's also pointed out that the hottest temperature ever recorded in North America was back in 1913- shouldn't we have exceeded that long before now if global warming is happening at such an alarming rate? It's been almost 100 years since that occurred.
I think we need to be cautious, but we need not go to the other extreme just yet- we need more facts. Not propaganda, but cold, hard facts.
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