Climate change destroyed civilizations. Any student of history knows this, and that, without even to tease apart the mysterious circumstances of, say the Bronze Age - it is as simple as Greenland getting too cold.
The impulse just "to do" something is a religious impulse.
Global cooling is an ancillary matter; it doesn't change the point. After all, the globe really will cool sometime in the future
Regrettably cannot at the moment parse through this entire thread but surely proponents are aware that global temperature seems to have fluctuated within historical record, and not just the Little Ice Age
Extending further, we know that paleoclimates could be radically different and have oscillated
Is Earth's climate changing? Of course. Should we tax ourselves to feel good about it? I think a dubious prospect, in light that climate already changes in absence of anthropogenic activity, therefore there must be certainty; furthermore, a tax won't even help, as noncompliant countries such as China industrialize
Then there is always curiously left out the consideration, now forgotten depending on your birthyear, that scientists of a recent generation were up in arms about global cooling instead
Regrettably at the moment cannot parse through this entire thread but surely proponents are aware that global temperature seems to have fluctuated within historical record, and not just the Little Ice Age
Extending further, we know that paleoclimates could be radically different and have oscillated. I knew this even in elementary school
Is Earth's climate changing? Of course; and that is because of course it will. Should we tax ourselves to feel good about it? I think a dubious prospect, in light that climate already changes in absence of anthropogenic activity, therefore there must be certainty; furthermore, a tax won't even help, as massive noncompliant countries such as China industrialize
Then there is always curiously left out the consideration, now forgotten depending on your birthyear, that scientists of a recent generation were up in arms about global cooling instead
I think there is danger of a curious autism and naivete re: the trustworthiness of certain scientists - remember they are people - coupled with a kind of religious fanaticism