Significant Pursuit by Renaissance Guy

     What do I know about climate?  Not much really.  I wish I did, but I don’t plan to go back to school to learn about it.  Like most people I am dependent on experts to tell me about it.  So what is one to do when some scientists say one thing and other scientists disagree?  Hmm?  The best I can do is apply a little common sense, and hope that I’m right.

     Does anybody know the answers to any of these questions?

• Why is CO2 so bad, anyway?  Don’t plants need it to live?
• If more CO2 is good for plants, then isn’t that good for animals that eat plants?
• If healthier plants leads to more animals, won’t those animals produce even more CO2?
• In fact, why are people trying to save polar bears, since they produce CO2 and other greenhouse gases?
• If CO2 makes the plants grow better, won’t that shade the ground and cool things back down?
• And won’t the healthier plants give off more oxygen and help recycle clean water?
• If global warming results in human deaths, wouldn’t that be a good thing, since humans are the cause of it in the first place?  After all, Planned Parenthood isn’t reducing the population fast enough, are they?
• Since we are growing corn to fuel our cars, isn’t more CO2 good for the corn?
• If global warming is occurring, then when are we actually going to experience warmer temperatures?  (The last few months have been unusually cool overall.)
• Why do people produce such huge carbon footprints by flying in airplanes to and from global warming conferences?
• If some of the global warming detractors are suspect because they are being paid by corporations, then why aren’t some of the global warming proponents suspect because they are getting paid by environmentalist groups, government agencies, and the United Nations?
• In fact how much money are Al Gore and other global warming alarmists making from the cause? 
• Are all the folks who want to save the polar bear actually cutting off their electricity, parking their car for good, and refraining from buying any manufactured goods?
• Are any of the folks who despise humanity for causing global warming volunteering to reduce the population by one?
• Given that the world has survived though huge climate changes in the past, will it really be destroyed by a slight increase in temperature?
• Is everything the result of global warming?  Is it all the fault of President George Bush?  (I’m sure that industrialization has been around since at least the Clinton administration.)
• If the balance of nature is so delicate, then why has the earth managed to survive through the extinction of many animal and plant species before?
• Assuming that at least one species of living thing survives the global warming disaster (will it be the cockroach?), won’t evolution recreate a thriving biosphere?