So you accept your viewas are an article of faith luutzu?
Don't think I've admitted or accept my view as such.
I certainly haven't gone into depth or analyse the raw data, and I've admitted that my understanding are just pedestrian and observational - that is, a few doco, a few interviews here and there.
So while I'm no expert, I know enough... Kinda like knowing not to smoke. I'm told there are hundreds of chemicals in a cigarette - so inhaling it in a pack a day isn't good; Then there are sick and coughing smokers I see around me; there's those graphic warnings. Did I go and detail all the chemicals? No; Did I research to find out the probability of premature death from smoking, the genetics and other pre-existing conditions that will likely or less likely to affect smokers in general and me in particular? No...
My grandfather smokes since he was a teen and die of old age at 93; my wife's great-grandfather smokes since he was 11, he still smokes right now at 95 and he's as fit as you can be at that age.
Should I look at those few rare cases and conclude that smoking won't kill you?
So I just know enough to never light up a cigarette and inhale it. Same with global warming.
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Al Gore made a convincing case when I watched and listen; I understand how the greenhouse effect works; I've seen enough news and read about once in a century weather events happening way too many time in my young life so far... and last but not least, I just changed my car's air filter and it's all black.
Like I said, the evidence are there... and I've heard them from experts.
But let say CO2 and our fossil fuel and global warming got nothing to do with each other... It is not clean energy yes? it's toxic to human and other lifeform yes?
Shouldn't that one fact alone be convincing enough to get ourselves going another direction? Do we really need to wait for the flood to reach our angle then we start to be convinced?
I rode around a few Asian cities on a scooter. On a less populated road, ones near the ocean it's all good. But taking an open-air tuk tuk around Bangkok, or riding around Hanoi or HCM City and you'd have a pretty clear idea how poisonous fossil fuel is, how many life years it will rob those people of.
Look at the rate of cancer death of those living near coal-fired power plants in the US, or near oil refineries or industrial plastics etc. It's not a coincidence... the lawyers will say otherwise but we know right?
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An interesting story.
You know what also contributed to the famine that kill 20 million people in China during Mao's good idea at the time moment? The killing of sparrows and other birds across the countryside.
He figured, or someone told him, that sparrows and birds eat the rice crop. So what better sense then get rid of them. So the farmers were ordered to bang their pots all across the country, scaring the daylights out of those birds that they fly and too afraid to land. So they ends up falling and most were dead.
Without those birds, the insects have no predators... and they eat most of the crop.
Add to this the fact that he ordered a move away from argiculture towards industrialisation and steel production from such wasteful steel instruments as farm equipment... When a bad harvest come because of drought or something, 20 million Chinese died over a few years period.
Put that on a global scale, and not just from a couple of bad and unfortunate events, but many times that - from the extreme weather to drought from low mountain icecaps, to rising sea level that will flood cities and salt arable land, to potentially unknown impact on marine life and disruption of that food chain... you might want to err on the side of caution here.
When you ignore the stop smoking warnings - thinking it's all hysteria with hidden agendas - and so just smoke anyway... that's fine because it will only kill you and hurt your loved ones; With global warming, you're not talking about just you or your family, it's literally the survival of our species and those million others.
If you want to be lazy like me, then err on the side of caution... If you want to deny and prove them scientists wrong, the only responsible thing to do is to then devote your career towards testing and researching the subject matter.
If anything's too important to take lightly, it's global warming.
You know, you can't say stuff like "coal is good for humanity", full stop. Or shrug it off by pointing to the Bible and God's promise to Noah.