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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6683275" data-attributes="member: 8835">I've been reading State of Fear by Michael Crighton.  It's about Global Warming and eco-terrorists.I would preface this discussion with some things:generally speaking, pollution and mass destruction of nature are bad things.  Arguing against global warming might be mistaken as support for these things.Folks who disbelieved in Global Warming might have been assumed to be in cahoots with BigOil or Ignorant.  I posit there might be a third option.Climate Change is not the same as Global Warming.  Technically, the climate is always changing, moving from one ice age to the next, etc.------------- To the discussion at hand --------------------I got this book for a $1 off Amazon.  I could not tell you if all his "facts" are correct or not.  But knowing Crighton, there's a nugget of truth or issue in his book.The premise here is that some folks are manipulating the message about the science to promote Global Warming as an issue. The glaciers are melting, when it might be only that SOME glaciers are melting, while the vast majority are not.Or that cities are hotter because of more concrete, not because of global warming because other places are actually cooling.  Or that increased CO2 is actually better for the crops, not worse.  Or that the Sahara has been shrinking since the 1980s per satellite photos.So, given that before I assumed Global Warming was a thing, I hadn't actually read any science.  Who's got time for that?Now, I have to ask, how do WE actually know if Global Warming is a real thing going on, or just a scare tactic?Back to my disclaimer, I certainly bet a demographic exists who resisted the idea of Global Warming because it was inconvenient.  They liked the benefit of polluting.  Or that they had their head in the sand.  But it is possible there are folks looking at the data who actually don't see the proof.I'm curious if it can be figured out here to some degree.</blockquote>

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