Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
That's the problem, if you type 'climate change' into Google you will easily find a million articles saying it's threatening the future of the planet and a million articles saying it's all a load of bollox. So who is right? My views are based entirely on my time on the planet which is in excess of 60 years. A minuscule time in the big picture, but enough to see definite changes. Summers are hotter and drier, winters are milder, and extremes such as high winds and floods are more frequent. Whether this is short term and naturally cyclical I don't know. What I do know is that because I have kids and grandkids I would err on the side of caution. Even if it turns out to be wrong, we need to act now.
As others have said, if you genuinely want to know about how the Earth’s climate is being affected by human activity, you find out what a climatologist thinks. If 9 climatologists say man made climate change is real, you don’t believe the 1 who says it isn’t. Billions upon billions of pounds and dollars have been spent on convincing people that man made climate change isn’t real, hence the Google results you’re on about and some of the posts in this thread.

I swear, some people would ring the chiropodist when they needed brain surgery.