First recognition, mother nature is the biggest driver of change in the environment. Mother nature’s arsenal includes the Sun, water vapor, methane and of course carbon dioxide. Mother nature’s oceans also have a major role in the temperature issue and I forgot volcanic activity.
At this point mans carbon dioxide is the issue and the science is still not resolved. Carbon trading is not the answer it may slow down economies put people out of work yet will not change the balance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in short term or medium term of time. The global warming proponents do not have a working model they have a bunch of best guesses and I’m sorry that does not reach the level for massive change of our economic structure.
I think the global warming fanatics must first prove without question their assertions the skeptics need not prove anything they are not asking to change the world.
In short my answer
Of all the “greenhouse gases” CO2 is a tiny percentage of the total, a mere trace. And “manmade” CO2 is a tiny percentage of that. So we’re talking about a trace of a trace, while ignoring the huge thermonuclear fireball hanging in the sky. Scientists who point to the correlation between variations in solar output and temperature variations were laughed at by the globwarm conmen. Of course, what else would they do?
Meanwhile every planet in the solar system was warming, as was reported, and the globwarm conmen told us, ignore that, there’s no connection. Of course not.
Carbon trading is the point; its the biggest money laundering scam in the history of the planet, it makes the previous Oil for Food scam look like penny ante. That was billions. This is potentially trillions. Trillions to be made and you don’t actually have to make anything or grow anything or create anything, you just crank out the paper and you get a cut of everyone’s action forever.