[Delphinus]

A little hesitant to weigh on this but I have to share one thought.

Climate change researchers, as scientists, don't necessarily believe that climate change is fact. Rather, they believe climate change as the most plausible explanation for the data gathered over the last 40 years or so. If you truly examine the data that's out there, it's really hard if not outright impossible to refute that climate data is trending in an accelerated rate.

What's troubling with climate change is that there are factors like positive feedback which potentially make it worse. A system that tends towards stability is one that benefits from negative feedback, that is, the more one variable increases, the more other factors push back on it. Positive feedback on the other hand is when one variable increases that other factors help to increase it further. Think of a die off in an aquarium, a little bit of ammonia can cause stressing in the livestock which can cause a secondary die-off and thus an increase in ammonia which then further distresses the remaining livestock and so on.

I think arguing against things like reducing carbon footprints is essentially folly. Whether we choose to believe that we are influencing climate change or not, increasing our dependence on non renewable energy sources is simply not sustainable indefinitely.