"Global freezing is global warming.......War is peace...Freedom is slavery...Ignorance is strength......Arbeit macht frei......"
Global Warming is a misnomer because it is not entirely descriptive of climate change. It is both an entirely accurate term and utterly misleading term because climate change brings about all kinds of extremes in weather. The United States is experiencing record low temperatures and Australia is experiencing record high temperatures. Current projections are for a rise of at least 2 degrees C by the end of the century. During that time we are likely to have record low temperatures, high temperatures, snowfalls, droughts, hurricanes, and tornado but the long term average temperature of the earth is increasing and will continue. We may be able to stop or lessen the effects of climate change by reducing fossil fuel use or it may be too late. However, I seriously doubt that we will do enough because humans respond to immediate emergencies. They adapt to slow changes.
You are correct.....the whole nobody sits around to watch paint dry.....thing. I'm thinking most AGW people never did much painting. They certainly missed the memo!
As I said, humans respond to current emergencies. No matter how much scientific proof might exist that the world as we know will cease to exist in a hundred or so year, people are not going to change their way of life. When we see water skiing in the great lakes in December and people in the southwest living underground and wall street is a couple of feet underwater, Americans will be more than happy to address the problem, kind of like shutting the barn door long after Bessie is long gone.
Frankly, I'm really not worried. Me, my kids, and grand kids will probably all be dead and gone before the end comes. Our descendants may curse us for our inaction but all I have to say is they don't understand human nature.