[olivermarks]

'...the evidence that humans have contributed to a warming climate in the last few centuries with all of our carbon emissions, primarily from energy production' What is this evidence exactly? I"m on the fence about human contributions to changes in earth weather and suspicious about carbon taxation. Sensible stewardship of the planet is a no brainer, but the hysteria is slowly increasing with children particularly freaking out about the planets demise after daily doses of alarmist rhetoric. This can't be healthy and pushes people to go along with questionable political measures. We are at a point where 'climate change' by human activity has to be pushed by Greta Thunberg and others as a slightly fanatical emotional event. I'm not seeing nearly enough hard evidence despite the legions of angry people I come up against who assure me 'it's all been proven' and claiming I am anti science...

[cletus]

The history of CO2 levels in the atmosphere [1] is a good starting point unless you're arguing that adding CO2 to the atmosphere does not and will not cause warming, which would be a bold position to take.

And why do you even care what some Swedish teenager I'd never heard of until right now is protesting climate change? Why does that matter?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-re...

[olivermarks]

It's a heretical position to take against popular opinion and beliefs that adding CO2 to the atmosphere does not and will not cause warming, but the evidence is by no means absolute. http://www.petitionproject.org I care about the Swedish teenager because she's been nominated for the Nobel prize and has dominated popular opinions this year. Daniil Gorbatenko wrote a good piece on her, I found a link to that here https://fee.org/articles/the-real-problem-with-greta-thunber...

[nharada]

> hysteria is slowly increasing with children particularly freaking out

Could it be because they're exactly the ones who will suffer from this?