I'm tellin' ya' - Global Warming is NOT such a bad thing!
When I was but a child, it was forecast that a 1.5 to 2-degree F. rise in the Global Ambient would melt the polar caps and flood every coastal city that was less than 20' above sea-level. HOWEVER, those crackpots were being discredited by the OPPOSING crackheads that were hand-wringing over the next Ice Age (scheduled for as soon as between 2025 and 2125, by late-'70s so-called "Scientists").
Well, I keep seeing this "Global Ambient has risen 5-degrees in the last two decades" or "We forecast another 3-degrees rise by 2010" B.S. cast around. Where's the Glaciers? Lacking that, where's the Floods?
Dude, I want some freakin' Global Disasters with my Apocalypse! Very Four-Asterisk'n Disappointed here!
Scientists don't know ****! All this data is based on record-keeping for (AT MOST!) the last 125 years. With the amount of CO2, NOx and SOx that is being dumped into the atmosphere daily by natural means completely dwarfing even the WORST of Man's pollution; how is it we can muster the Hubris to believe that something as miniscule as ourselves can have a lasting effect on this planet? (short of Nuclear Holocaust)
Mind, I'm NOT for the Nest-Fouling pollution we had prior to the 1960s - that is just foolishness for the sake of foolishness. But the Global Warming/Global Cooling hand-wringers haven't a CLUE - and these guys are supposed to be "Experts". Line up every Analyst in the World end-to-end, and they'll STILL point in all directions............