I thought you're a facts-guy Hass, where are your anti-climate change facts?
See, there's that delusion again.
I don't have facts against climate change. I'm sceptical of the models and predictions, though, and I have described why that is*.
But predictions aside, I believe that it is important to reduce usage of fossile fuels. I disagree with the notion that climate change can only be avoided or fixed by radical social change, because I believe there are technical solutions that don't require complete deindustrialisation and a pseudo-orwellian dystopia to work.
* If you're still reading this and not already frothing at the mouth because you read something up there that wasn't there, here's what I mean: Current climate change predictions are based on computer models. These models are incomplete, for example, they disregard the effect of cloud covering. This leads to a large systematic error to the energy balance in these models, and since the output value of the models, the global mean temperature, is iterative and based on the previous years, this error accumulates and makes the predictions utterly useless after just a few years. Why do they still work? Because the various parameters of the simulations are basically fitted to current temperature curves, and then extrapolated with various CO2-forcing-values. Basically, the models are tailored to show that increased CO2 in the atmosphere leads to a huge warming effect. It's all they can do, and I think that they are unphysical.
I have various other criticisms when it comes to climate change reporting. Often, old temperature data is used to show that the world has warmed so many degrees. This is highly unscientific. First of all, measurement inaccuracies are immense. Calibration of measurement equipment, even the simple act of reading a classic thermometer has measurement errors. Add up those measurement errors, propagate them properly, and a temperature map with honest error bars would have absolutely no message. Like, "the world has warmed 1.2°C since 19xx"? Yeah nah, the message simply isn't there.
That's systematic measurement errors. Then you get the huge influence of the environment. Since 1850, the standard year of comparing temperatures to, cities have been build. Roads have been build, swamps have been drained, forests have changed and so on. These have huge effects on local temperatures. Again, leading to massive error bars, but you'll never see those error bars reported, because having a +-5°C error bar on a ~0.1°C temperature change is absolutely useless. So people just don't show them. I think there's a lot of dishonesty when it comes to climate change research and climate change reporting. Just recently, a study was published showing that contrary to previous studies, increased acidification of the oceans did not alter fish behaviour. The authors were worried it would fuel climate change deniers. This is incredibly worrying, because the extreme politization of this topic has absolutely destroyed the scientific integrity of the field. How many studies were not published or even made because of such politics? We don't know.
Either way, I believe that we should get rid of fossile fuels ASAP. Climate change or not, cleaner air and healthier environments are good things, no matter what.