OK fine fine fine, I'll get involved again and tell you all the correct answer. I seem to do this for every thread...
ANSWER:
Global Warming is very real and a bigger problem than any of you can comprehend. Want to know why you can't comprehend it? Because we've only been on earth for a few thousand years. Humans have only been "modern" for a few hundred. Know how long the Earth has been around? Somewhere along the lines of 5 Billion years or more. I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible...so bear with me kiddos.
Now, to most of you, 100 years seems like forever, literally. As in, to most of you, 100 years is just a number that doesnt mean anything, its too far in the future.
The reality is, 100 years is nothing, not even a blink of an eye, not even the thought of blinking an eye. When scientists in Europe say the earth is warming 2-5 degrees every 100 years because of excess CO2 in the atmosphere, it doesnt get any more dramatic than that. That is a RAPID and violent temperature change in the long term scale. This means that in 200-300 years, large parts of the earth will be drastically different than the way they look today, and who knows what will happen then. It does not take much to throw off the chemical balance of earth's atmosphere, it really is a special balance of chemical reactions.
So, there's your answer. The reason you guys laugh and call those scientists paranoid liberals is because you just don't understand and don't have any concept of time and universe beyond your own little, selfcontained sphere of influence. In the last 200 years, humans have destroyed half the forests and most of the rivers on the planet. Once again, thats less than a heartbeat. In two thousand years, at this rate, humans will be gone, and we will have been less than a footnote on the history of earth. Having come and gone in a flash