I think global warming and climate change is a red herring in the whole environmental debate. Why worry about possible catastrophic environmental disasters in 100 years when you have real environmental disasters happening right now? Contaminated water supplies, flooding through deforestation, air pollution causing health problems, over fishing threatening the fishing industry, etc. I think it's a shame that the scientific and environmental establishment has allowed the debate to be hijacked by politicians and anti-intellectuals. As a result, environmental policies in general suffer because everything is now tied up "all or nothing" with the climate change debate.
