Speaking of pendulums not swinging back to center...
As to the topic at hand, it's weird that I hear some Republicans say the climate is changing but not impacted (enough) by humans to make changes. I feel like whether humans are impacting it negatively in a profound way should be beside the point of trying to figure out ways to rebalance things to provide a future for humans to live on this (once?) beautiful planet.
In 4.7 billion years of this planet, there is been only one constant to out climate; that is change.
The fraud of the left is in claiming that man has any significant impact and especially that if we give all our wealth and power to them they can "fix:" what is a purely natural cycle.
Here is an allegory to explain it.
One day Og awoke and wandered out of his lean-to only to discover that the mountain to the east was billowing smoke. Og became very frightened. He turned to his wife and said "mountain smoke, Og scared."
The wife met with all the other women while chewing hides and none of them could figure out why the mountain was smoking. So Og went to Algore, the village Shaman and said "why mountain smoke?" Algore shook a rattle and chanted some mumbo jumbo and then declared "The volcano god is angry because Og has too much food and life is too easy."
Algore went on "Og must make a sacrifice - as must every other villager. Bring me 9/10ths of all food and furs that you have, and I must also have your virgin daughters to appease the gods. If you do not give these to me, you will die, and not only you but EVERYONE in the village."
Og was very afraid. He loved his daughter, but how could he let everyone die? Besides, if he gave the Shaman 9/10th of his food to throw in the volcano, along with his daughter, he would have no food to feed his children and she would starve to death anyway.
So Og and the villagers gave Algore what he demanded. Algore gorged himself on the food and raped the girls for a month, then trudged up the mountain, raped Og's daughter again, murdered her, and threw her in the volcano. He did the same to the daughters of the other villagers.
Then Algore went back to the village and said that the gods were pleased, but in a year they would have to do it all again to keep pleasing the gods.
The next day, the volcano erupted and killed everyone in the village.
MORAL:
The volcano was real. Algore the Shaman had no more understanding of it than Og did, but he saw an opportunity to get the wealth and children of the villagers by leveraging their fear.
None of the sacrifices made by Og did anything - other than satiate Algore's lust and greed.
And THIS is what Anthropogenic Global Warming is today, Shamans taking everything from suckers based on fear.
