I believe if our time is up on this planet it’s up, and not even a return to living in caves and hunting and gathering for survival is going to stop it, so I see no point in allowing climate change authorities to dictate how we live. Better to burn out than fade away, or something like that.

Doing that with your small sample shows that average days over 80 degrees have trended from below 30/year to above 40/year in 5 years, which is significant.

I’m not concerned about the Earth’s health; it’s 4B years old, it’ll be fine. We are an infestation. I am, however, concerned that we will alter it enough that we won’t be able to live on it, and more immediately, I’m concerned that things will get bad enough in already marginal places to make things bad for me.

I’m not saying conclusively that climate change isn’t happening. I’m just not sold that my driving a car and heating my house is the cause, and I’m not willing to believe that it’s going to kill the world because some people with agendas say so. Sorry.

Also, An oil spill in P.W. Sound is a drop of sludge in an olympic size swimming pool that has nothing to do with climate change. And, while it’ll never be what it was before the accident (but forests aren’t after wildfires and such either), the sound is by no means dead.

I travel (when was the last time you left Reisterstown, Cheese?).
It is a fact that polar ice is melting and that sea levels are rising as a result. Next time you go to an island, ask somebody if the coastline is farther in. If they say “yes”, this is because the sea level is rising.

Buy a plane ticket to Alaska and ask an Eskimo if there’s less ice up there. Bring me back some fish from Prince William Sound, if you can find any that weren’t killed off as the result of the Exxon Valdiz oil spill.