False predictions from the 1970s, such as Paul Erlich’s famine and resource exhaustion scenarios, those from the Club of Rome, and various global cooling predictions, gave me a wait-and-see attitude when global warming predictions began ten years back. What further put me off was that while there was evident progress in environmental amelioration in the US since 1970, many of the environmental activists in later years were unwilling to acknowledge it.

What later increased my skepticism was the messenger: Al Gore. Al’s bloviating on other subjects, such as his equating fundamentalist Christians with Wahabis, made him lose credibility with me. ( I an an agnostic.) I have forgotten more science than Al ever learned. As far as Al knows, the Law of large numbers was passed by the 75th Congress. Or was it the 80th Congress? That is the extent of his scientific knowledge.

The fanaticism of many of the global warming people further put me off.

That being said, we are one earth, and consequences can be felt thousands of miles away. In 1998 those in Texas could smell the smoke from fires in Mexico a thousand miles away.
The jury is still out on global warming. Peak oil, and not global warming , will draw us towards “green” nuclear energy and wind energy and such renewable sources.

False predictions from the 1970s, such as Paul Erlich’s famine and resource exhaustion scenarios, those from the Club of Rome, and various global cooling predictions, gave me a wait-and-see attitude when global warming predictions began ten years back. What further put me off was that while there was evident progress in environmental amelioration in the US since 1970, many of the environmental activists in later years were unwilling to acknowledge it.

What later increased my skepticism was the messenger: Al Gore. Al’s bloviating on other subjects, such as his equating fundamentalist Christians with Wahabis, made him lose credibility with me. ( I an an agnostic.) I have forgotten more science than Al ever learned. As far as Al knows, the Law of large numbers was passed by the 75th Congress. Or was it the 80th Congress? That is the extent of his scientific knowledge.

The fanaticism of many of the global warming people further put me off.

That being said, we are one earth, and consequences can be felt thousands of miles away. In 1998 those in Texas could smell the smoke from fires in Mexico a thousand miles away.
The jury is still out on global warming. Peak oil, and not global warming , will draw us towards “green” nuclear energy and wind energy and such renewable sources.