When the Right claims that global warming is a farce, they're partly right.. The average temperature ARE rising, but its not going to turn the planet into the planet Venus. Here in NY we're getting the occasional freaky weather. This winter I recalled that while it did snow, it never stuck. I barely had to break out the shovel and snowplow this year at work, or anywhere!
The bigger concern that rising temperatures may cause is CLIMATE SHIFT. Warm weather doesn't alway come from the sun, it also comes from ocean currents that carry warm water and humidity to certain parts of the world to warm them up during those summer times.. In between the US and Europe for example, there's a circular current of salty water that goes from the equator, past the European states to warm their country, and back down again as it reaches as high as the north pole, and circulates down again to the equator. As the polar ice caps melt and introduce fresh water into that circular system, its being disturbed. Eventually that system may end up being halted, and the winter chill of the north pole may end up spreading further down as far as the UK, European countries and even spots like NYC, where those places will look constantly snowy and VERY cold like Siberian-style stuff.
I've seen some Americans 'protest' the global warming crowd by buying bigger trucks, SUVs and making smog machines to "stick it to the hippies", but little they know, those "hippie scientists" are going to end up having the last laugh.
While I understand that things take time, people who refuse to acknowledge that SOMETHING is up-- Cimate-wise, corporate-wise, political-wise -- and completely deny it and listen to their people and just DON'T QUESTION, are the ones that bug me.
facts straight hwsb.....I stated I've been on this earth "ALMOST" 50 years.....not over. 
