I have not bought into any propaganda. I have made up my own mind. I do not believe climate change is caused by man, for these reasons:
1. The total volume of atmospheric CO2 makes up 0.054% of the atmosphere. Of that 0.054% human activities contribute less than 1%. So restricting our choices, forcing us to use poisonous appliances, raising taxes in the name of the environment will have no effect on climate change. You might as well tell Amazonian natives not to piss in the Amazon in case they make it flood.
2. Atmospheric CO2 is a result of global warming, not a cause of global warming. The temperature rises and then the amount of atmospheric CO2 rises. If it was the other way round global temperatures would have risen steadily throughout the 20th century, but they didn't. In fact from 1940 to the late 70s global temperatures fell, for four consecutive decades and all the talk was of a coming ice age.
3. The green movement is no longer about the environment, it is about removing freedom of choice from the majority. It is about the politics of envy and spite. When I call them the Eco-Taliban I do so because that is exactly what they have become, a Taliban who will brook no disagreement against their great god Seotu, and who will vilify anyone who disputes their propaganda.
Can you back these statements up? Can you reference any scientific papers or journals? The so called global cooling in the 70's was a myth propagated by a bunch of pseudo scientists and based on inaccurate measurements. I remember the books on global cooling they were on the same bookshelves as books on UFO's and ESP. I would refer you to the IPCC fourth assessment report from 2007:
Changes in the atmosphere
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are all long-lived greenhouse gases.
* "Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values."
* The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2005 (379 ppm) exceeds by far the natural range of the last 650,000 years (180 to 300 ppm).
* The amount of methane in the atmosphere in 2005 (1774 ppb) exceeds by far the natural range of the last 650,000 years (320 to 790 ppb).
* The primary source of the increase in carbon dioxide is fossil fuel use, but land-use changes also make a contribution.
* The primary source of the increase in methane is very likely to be a combination of human agricultural activities and fossil fuel use. How much each contributes is not well determined.
* Nitrous oxide concentrations have risen from a pre-industrial value of 270 ppb to a 2005 value of 319 ppb. More than a third of this rise is due to human activity, primarily agriculture.
[edit] Warming of the planet
Cold days, cold nights, and frost events have become less frequent. Hot days, hot nights, and heat waves have become more frequent. Additionally:
* Eleven of the twelve years in the period (1995-2006) rank among the top 12 warmest years in the instrumental record (since 1850).
* Warming in the last 100 years has caused about a 0.74 °C increase in global average temperature. This is up from the 0.6 °C increase in the 100 years prior to the Third Assessment Report.
* Urban heat island effects were determined to have negligible influence (less than 0.0006 °C per decade over land and zero over oceans) on these measurements.
* Observations since 1961 show that the ocean has been absorbing more than 80% of the heat added to the climate system, and that ocean temperatures have increased to depths of at least 3000m (9800 ft).
* "Average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years."
* It is likely that greenhouse gases would have caused more warming than we have observed if not for the cooling effects of volcanic and human-caused aerosols. See global dimming.
* Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1300 years.