Climate scientists have found that global temperatures have likely risen by 1.5 °C since the Industrial Revolution. So what? You’ll find that hurricanes, droughts, etc., have not been increasing.
Furthermore, who says that global temperatures were optimal 150 years ago? The Earth is greener now than it has been for many decades. And the CO2 we emit is one reason for it. And the growing seasons in the US Midwest, as well as other countries where most of the food is grown, also have longer growing seasons.
Now look at this graph of global warming:
The greatest increase starts at around 1970, so let’s begin there. For the 50 years from 1970 to 2020, global temperatures increased about 1.0 °C. Doing a bit of math shows that the Earth is warming at the rate of 2 °C per century. Has anyone told you this? No. The climate change alarmists don’t make it easy to find this information. Thus, by the end of this century, the global temperature is expected to increase by 1.5 °C. Big deal. In the decades to come, you might have to use your AC a bit more.
Even more to the point is that wasting time, energy, and money to dramatically decrease CO2 emissions in the United States will have virtually no effect on atmospheric CO2. For instance, China, India, and the other developing nations are emitting more and more CO2, while the United States and most other developed countries are slightly decreasing their CO2 emissions.
If you’re still concerned, consider that worldwide wealth will vastly increase in the decades to come. By the end of the century, we’ll likely need very little of the fossil fuels, mostly because of nuclear power and solar energy.
Being prosperous will allow us to deal with any negative consequences of global warming (if any). Throwing money away on carbon credits, or subsidized solar or wind farms, will decrease prosperity.
Don’t worry. Be happy.
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