RE: My Perspective on Climate Change and Global Warming
We're almost completely in agreement, and I reckon it's because we are seeking to rationally understand the issue, which leads to examining the actual evidence.
One thing I am concerned about is that the propaganda is causing folks to attempt geoengineering to reduce warming, and the best understanding of real climate data suggests we are overdue for significant cooling and a return to ice age conditions.
In the event such geoengineering is successful, and that cooling trend is imminent, extreme harm could result.
One very simply metric that indicates we are naturally headed for cooler conditions is the fluctuation of sea level over the last 250kya. During that period sea level has risen and fallen ~100 meters five times. We are presently at peak sea level. What has happened five times in a row is that sea level has quickly fallen from this level, meaning that global temperatures rapidly cooled and froze a lot of water into glaciers.
Given that I am confident those natural processes continue, and that our impact is presently relatively negligible, I expect that process to happen again. If we manage to deliberately increase the cooling over the natural reduction, the impact of the climate change geologically imminent will be more dramatic, and this will result in more severe impacts on civilization, society, and human survival.
We've enjoyed an extended interglacial for the last few thousand years, which has certainly contributed to our advancing civilization. When cooling has happened due to natural processes during that advance, empires have crumbled, and humanity suffered catastrophic loss of life. No one that cares about people wants to make that worse.
It's the primary reason I care about the climate propaganda issue at all. The disinformation has potential to induce genocidal loss of life in the event normal climactic processes continue, which is very likely IMHO. This makes it very important to dispel the disinformation, because doing so will save millions, perhaps billions, of lives of good people.