We don't have to do that.The media goes all worst case scenario
Yeah but you do it all the time anyway (see any similar story on /.). Plenty of prominent scientists are not shouting 10m sea level rise etc but they are not the boss of "the MEDIA" who make their own decisions on what to report based on how fired up it will make people.
Thats not how it works. You dont prove a negative.
Indeed. You just flat out state it as "truth". I think most of us are in agreement that humans are releasing a lot of CO2 and that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. You all just say its not a problem because...well I'm not really sure anyone has really finished that sentence without invoking junk science.
Wow that seems like a lot. Speaking of numbers, 4 of the US Fortune 10 are oil companies. That doesn't count the state owned oil companies. Theres $trillions in assets buried in the ground still that they "own". Who has more skin in the game? Those warning of unintened consequenses of the status quo or those who currently have all the power and stand to have $trillions of assets rendered worthless.
For all your bitching about the economy I'm sure you've calculated exactly how much of your personal tax dollars are being "wasted" on "climate change nonsense". Even if it was $200B over the past 10 years, most of the DOE loans have been repaid. Its the $1.5T we've spent in the middle east thats causing the problem. When will we get repaid for that?
Also, nice work throwing in that "bankers" comment at the end. I don't see how all the job growth in renewables (which is not subject to the whims of saudi arabia like north dakota currently is) means we are giving our money to the UN. WTF man? You want to play that way, you know where ISIS gets its money? Oil.
Eventually in due time, better energy sources will be viable and we'll automatically switch over to them.
They are available today. My power company (XCEL, mainly coal plants) is lobbying against them.
But you're right, if things get real bad the earth can recover to our present mild climate conducive to a stable advanced society. It will only take a few thousand years which I'm sure we all have the patience for.
Sidenote: I used to worry that humanity is blowing our chance to get to the stars which may be just a couple physics revelations away (or not). We are wasting this ideal temperate, global disaster free planet by bickering about oil. But the longer this drags on the more I think humanity just isn't good enough to take any more giant leaps. We peaked in high school.