First, I want to recommend the following article by a meteorologist who "gets it". Brian Sussman does an excellent job of putting the global warming facts in perspective in this article entitled Global Whining vs. the Truth.
In his article he references best-selling author Michael Crichton, which I am placing verbatim because it provides a powerful perspective on the size of the issue!
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In his must-read eco-thriller, State of Fear, Michael Crichton creates a brilliant visual to assist us in wrapping our minds around the components of Earth's atmosphere. On page 387, he likens the atmosphere to a football field. The goal line to the 78 yard-line contains nothing but nitrogen. Oxygen fills the next 21 yards to the 99 yard-line. The final yard, except for four inches, is argon, a wonderfully mysterious inert gas useful for putting out electronic fires. Three of the remaining four inches is crammed with a variety of minor, but essential, gases like neon, helium, hydrogen and methane. And the last inch? Carbon dioxide. One inch out of a hundred-yard field! At this point I like to add, if you were in the stands looking down on the action, you would need binoculars to see the width of that line. And the most important point-how much of that last inch is contributed by man-made activities? Envision a line about as thin as a dime standing on edge.
Are you still worried about the dangers of CO2?
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Perhaps you still believe in Global Warming. And perhaps you believe in the Easter Bunny, too. My recommendation is to stick with the Easter Bunny, because no politician has figured out how to get money out of your wallet over that.
In case you want a perspective on what your scientific ignorance or political leanings is going to cost you (not the oil companies, power companies, etc.), here is a headline that should shock you into thinking a little more about what you could be facing with regards to cleaning up a phantom problem would be:
$45 trillion needed to combat warming