Well I could have...
Number one, I don't know how many scientists/weather forecasters are involved in predicting hurricane season, but I'm pretty sure it's nowhere near the volume of scientists who have expressed their belief in man-made global warming.
I have believed in global warming at points, but certain things make me wonder from time to time. My problem is with people like the commenter who seem to assume the opposite is true. That makes one guilty of the same thing. A favorite of mine is when someone says in May "wow, this cold weather...must be that global warming.(har har)" I wonder what they'd say now that we're having a heat wave in October. Assuming that climate change only makes everywhere constantly hotter doesn't even go along with what the scientists are saying.
And forecasters wanting to dismantle our entire industrial economy? What about just wanting to take care of the environment? The old Boy Scout motto of leaving the forest as you found it. My position on global warming is that whether or not it really exists, it would still be better to take care of the environment. Just look at
this story and tell me...how is that good for us? I know I've read a similar story about Los Angeles and its smog problems. If our government wasn't in bed with big businesses, maybe we could've started doing things decades ago in a more efficient and healthy way. I'm not talking just about oil and car companies, but a specific example of how they won't legalize hemp because lumber companies, etc would be out of business if hemp was used to make paper, among all of its other uses.
I hold the belief that a scientist has a much greater chance of knowing what is going on with the environment than me, or anyone else. They've done, or have access to, a lot of data and research. They've studied the topic a lot more than I have, or you have. Would I just the same listen to, and consider the information provided by, a scientist that seeks to disprove global warming or that it is man-made? Sure. Provided that it hasn't already been proven that he/she was on the payroll of an oil company. Why people, like some of my friends, protect that side of the argument is beyond me. Do you get a check from the oil company to argue that global warming isn't real? I know I don't. I guess people are scared that their way of life might change. Actually, I'm fairly sure that's it. Americans (may be other countries, but it seems like its mostly Americans) would rather say screw the world, I want a big car, I want this, I want that, and honestly just couldn't give a damn about the effects they have on other people and the world.
Look, we're never going to know for sure what this whole issue is going to result in. Civilization in a few hundred years or more will have to look at piles of data just like we did to see when there were ice ages, etc. in the past. I think we should just cut the crap and work on new ways of energy, because what we do know is that we only have a limited amount of resources, like oil, in this world. We also know that unless we figure something out, someone, like Saudi Arabia, will always have power over us unless we attack them. And given that Saudi Arabia and our views aren't exactly in line, I'd say that's a bad thing. Even Bush has said that we need to get off of our dependence of foreign oil, yet no one seems to be doing much about it. We have to get people to stop using the "global warming isn't real" line to keep us from advancing our technology and means of energy.