[Sean]

It just sounds to me like the fundamental issue of climate change is still in full effect, but that there are some scientists out there who have undermined the known facts by withholding or lying about some of the details. This is the same reason I get on the case of people like Michael Moore and the like. You can be out promoting the noblest of causes, but when your methods include dishonesty like this, your cause becomes secondary to the scandal.

That being said, it's just a basic fact that we as a species need to start finding a way for our existence on this planet to be balanced with our environment and global ecosystems. Regardless of whether or not climate change specifically is man-made, we're simply ravaging the entire earth to the extent that in the neighborhood of 3 species go completely extinct every hour of every day. That's around 72 species per day, and over 26,000 per year. This inevitably wreaks havoc with the ecosystems these species played a role in - ecosystems that often include us - and creates a domino effect that we have to stop. Like the recent, alarmingly sharp drop in bee populations - an insect that literally provides human beings with one out of every three bites of food we ever eat! And at the same time, we're draining the planet of it's finite supply of natural resources. So even if climate change isn't our fault (though it likely is, at least in part), we still need to start making environmentally conscious changes to how we live. If we don't, then the planet will be destroyed by us through climate change, or deforestation, or overfishing, or overfarming, or pollution that poisons all the other life we depend on to survive.

I mean for crying out loud, mankind has evolved with the ability to conceptualize on a level that no other species can even come close to matching. Why the hell do the bulk of us refuse to use this unique trait to our fullest advantage?