Seems like a lot of people believe we should not even try to change, becouse it is so bothersome. I think this is part of the reason so many choose to believe the relatively few scientists going against the commonly accepted theories on what is happening just now.
It is interesting to see how little interest there is in trying to understand the "other side". It is also interesting to see how opinions differ from country to country. You in the USA seem to be more opposed to global warming and CO2 theories than others. We also have some people sharing your point of view here in Norway, mostly on the far right side politically. I think it is fair to say that the USA politically is to the right of Norway, so perhaps what we choose to believe is a political matter. Whoose propaganda do you choose to believe, or rather who are telling the thruth and who are running propaganda shows.. When enough studies are released and 98% of them comes to the same conclusion, I think it is a pretty good indicator.

I had a look at the "hockey stick" graph and I think the author is very much right in his critique. However a 1000 years are not a long time in a geological perspective.
I dont think anybody are going to deny that earth have been both very much warmer and very much colder than today? It took nature a very long time to produce and process all the CO2 leading to these varmer and colder periods so the cycle took many, many thousands of years. In the 100 years since the industrial revelution, we have burnt about half of the earths liquid oil and released the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. Considering that oil really is captured sunlight, nurturing living organisms producing CO2, which died and was through time turned into oil by capturing CO2, heat, pressure etc., we are spending stored sunlight. Burning this "stored sunlight" we release the CO2 which was captured back then. We know CO2 in the atmosphere will raise the temperature, so we are helping the CO2 cycle along. The remaining question is why the organisms which today is oil died, at the same time, in a geological timeframe.. Nature needs thousands and thousands of years to produce the amount of CO2 we humans have released in a hundred years, do the math and the picture is pretty clear to me.


And nothing wrong with that. We are building ourself Blade F16s in wood just now. Expect them to last longer than a foam/glass sandwich..
As long as you dont burn hydrocarbons, like in an engine, the CO2 is not released into the atmosphere. Need to find other materials for glues and fibers when we run out of oil, but we can do that.