The mainstream view on Climate Change and some of it's Consequences
The mainstream view There is a currently, I’ve simplified extensively, what may be termed a "mainstream" position on climate change some key elements of which are that : 97% or more scientists believe the Earth has recently been and is continuing to heat up - Global Warming (GW) GW is not the result of natural variations in the earth’s climate but a result of human activity i.e Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) primarily due to burning of fossil fuels - oil, coal resulting in increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the main culprit being carbon dioxide CO2 given such a huge consensus in the scientific community the existence of AGW is essentially a hard-scientific fact or as put by some “the science (on AGW) is settled” In addition a further key element of the mainstream AGW position is that: AGW is essentially bad for everyone therefore all nations MUST implement polices to try to reverse it by : reducing energy consumption developing alt...