Man-Made Global Climate Change: So...what's up with that?

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What I don't understand is, even if manmade pollutants are the primary cause of climate change, why this is construed as to be dangerous and damaging and evil. This ignores the fact that climate change, irregardless of this particular instance, has been naturally-occurring ever since the oceans formed enough water to absorb most of the CO2 from the atmosphere (which itself was mostly comprised of carbon dioxide some three zillion weeks ago). There have been countless instances of climate shift in the four billion-odd years that Earth has hosted enough water to form what we recognize as climactic patterns, and no shortage of catastrophes that have likely caused major and abrupt alterations in these patterns. And yet, we have the hubris and self-loathing to honestly believe that the Hummer, hideous, wasteful behemoth that it is, may be one of the man-made things that 'destroys the planet'.

Life will go on, no matter what happens to ice shelfs (which are, geologically, not all that old anyway... Antarctica wasn't always down where it is) and the air and so forth. We might make messes, but we're not going to destroy the earth. That won't happen for another billion years or so, when the sun's nuclear fuel peters out and it expands, evaporating the oceans and turning the whole planet into a hot, waterless hellhole that resembles Mississippi.

And somehow, someone will blame the Republicans for that.