If you read the piece which provoked this thread you'll read that the scientific consensus is that global climate change is a threat to our environment. That's what the scientists are saying. What the research piece MAY indicate is that among Americans there has been such obfuscation by vested interests which have made a scientific phenomenon the subject of political ideology (the left says it exists, the right says it doesn't exist) so that Americans seem to be oblivious of the reality of global climate change.
The scienctific community (save for a few paid voices in opposition) is clear that global climate change exists as a result of human activity, that it threatens our environment and that humans need to do something about their behaviour in order to reduce or eliminate the threat.
You can believe what you wish. Your belief has no effect on the objective reality.
It's not that we're oblivious, we've just had so much of this nonsense in the last forty years that we just don't give a shit any more.
In the seventies, the consensus told us that a new ice age had started and we were all going to freeze to death.
In the eighties, the consensus told us that AIDS was going to wipe out mankind by the year 2000.
In the nineties the consensus told us that if Saddam set the Kuwaiti oil fields on fire it would cause "nuclear winter" that would destroy civilization. He did and it didn't...and don't forget Y2K!
Now, let's get back to another consensus pot of hogwash. The consensus tells us that Lake Chad is drying up because of "Man Caused Global Warming".
1. Lake Chad is a big mud hole. It's maximum depth is twenty feet. It's fed by the the Chari and Logone rivers. The water from those rivers has been diverted for agriculture. Scientists back in the eighties warned that diverting the rivers would result in the lake drying up. The warnings were ignored.
2. The geologic record clearly shows that for the last 50,000 years Lake Chad has dried up approximately every 800 years. It has been 800 years since the last dry cycle.
Again...if the consensus is right, why do they need to lie to us?
