Those same scientists claimed that another ice age was impending in the 1970's too. They are shysters looking for government handouts and the only way you get government handouts is by presenting scary scenarios.
Glacier loss began with the end of the Little Ice Age. 90% of the glacier loss was BEFORE 1900. Desertification is a perennial thing but parts of the Sahara are actually greening again or hadn't you heard?
Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change
The Darfur food war is caused by government corruption as are 99% of sub Saharan Africa's problems.
And all of this is merely window dressing for the fact that CO2 doesn't drive temperatures. Trace gasses simply don't have the power that the faithful claim they do. The Earths atmospheric engine is far more powerful than any climatologist can imagine and is far far more capable of dealing with anything we pathetic humans are capable of doing.
Progressives like you love to claim that you really don't want to harm the economies of the world and I can't figure out if you're just ignorant or lying. The cost to do "something" which even your high priests stipulate might not work (and their goal is merely to lower the global average temperature by ONE degree in 100 years....conveniently after they are long dead after having robbed you blind) is a mere 76 TRILLION dollars.
Who gets that money? Politicians, third world dictators, bankers, scientists of course, Big Oil, industrialists, and of course a few hundred thousand workers will make some decent money while they are putting up this new "green" infrastructure, and not one penny is actually earmarked for pollution control.
You can come back to me when you actually know something more than the talking points you've been given.
westwall,
First of all, from what I've heard, we are supposed to be in a period that is heading toward another ice age. Though from another website, they said that right now we are in an ice age. Science is tricky. As far as 90% of glacer loss happening before 1900 goes, you have to be trippin. If glacers were melting at that rate, there wouldn't be any left today. Also, no I haven't heard that the Sahara is greening. Probably because it isn't true. If anything, the Sahara is expanding.
As for the Darfur conflict, the lack of food wasn't due to corruption. It was due to their lake drying up and a lack of food. You then bring up CO2 and the earth's climate engine. But the effect humans are having are all around. They are too numerous to go into. If you refuse to see it, that's up to you. You may not like it, but it is good to be able to see. If you like comming down hard on those who do, that again is up to you.
As far as progressives saying that they don't want to harm the economies of the world goes, I must not be a progeressive. Because I want to outright destroy economies as they now stand. There is no doubt they need to be replaced with something better. One that doesn't richly reward parasitic bureaucrats like stock traders and insurance company employees. Who don't actually contribute anything tangable toward the human condition. Or one that doesn't cause plastic trash to collect in large oceanic gyres. Etc. times zillions.
You then bring up the cost of doing something. But it is very likely that the cost of doing nothing will be way higher than the cost of doing nothing. Then you bring up what the "high priests" say. Well I'm not them. I can guarantee you that if I was in charge, things would drastically start to change for the better. Though I have heard it said that even if we fixed things, because of the CO2 we have already put into the atmosphere, it would still continue to warm for a while. Which is even more reason to do something.
Then one of the things you mention making money out of a green economy is oil companies. But you've lost me in how an oil company could make money out of the destruction of their industry. You can come back to me when you have more than the run of the mill denier drivel.