I went from a paranoid obsessive person to a skeptic.
Why? A few reasons:
1. We had two unusually cold winters here in Colorado in 2007 and 2008.
2. The drought we had out west ended.
3. The Earth's temperature has actually cooled slightly over the past decade.
4. The media always hypes things that are bad or scary because it's good for ratings.
5. The issue was politicized a long time ago, which means the science was taken out of it.
6. There have been periods in relatively recent history that were as warm or warmer.
7. The greenhouse effect that keeps Earth warm is actually caused mostly by water vapor, not CO2.
8. I realized it was "cool" to be concerned about it, that's why most believed it, not because they were really convinced.
9. I've heard stories of climatologists being rejected by their colleagues and even losing their jobs because they did research that went against global warming.
10. If global warming isn't a real event, or not one of much concern, many climatologists will lose their jobs. What will they do instead?
But that map of Florida Al Gore showed.....Disney World will be underwater....why won't you think of the children?!
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