Why say its a hoax? There was the Petition Project in 1997 but i would think it's fair to say that is outdated. Do you believe the more recent 97% Consensus on Global warming being caused by humans has no merit? Just curious how you came to that position.
In the first place I don't believe there's a 97 percent consensus on global warming - they don't call it global warming anymore by the way, they call it climate change, because the warming stopped - and even if there were I'd think it meaningless. There used to be a 97 percent consensus that the earth was the center of the universe and that there be monsters here at the end of the flat earth; so I don't care about consensus, even if it exists and it doesn't, and don't bother appending a link to some story that says the opposite because I've read them and the numbers are fudged.
I'm not expert about natural history, but I do know that the earth has been warming for 10 thousand years, since the last great ice age. I know that before that - before SUVs and cow farts - it was pretty warm, since there are aquatic marine fossils in the polar ice caps. I know that 150 years ago - right around the time we started keeping temperature records - the earth emerged from the Little Ice Age that followed the Medieval Warming period and that the way you emerge from an ice age is - wait for it - it gets warmer. Consider: if you started taking the temperature in your back yard in February and it averaged 20 degrees and in March it averaged 30 degrees and in April 60 degrees and in June 70 degrees without further information you'd predict that the temperature in your backyard would be 180 degrees in November and WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. And you'd go outside and sacrifice a chicken to the weather gods, except there's no god anymore and odds are you need a permit to keep chickens, must less process them.
(Did you know that in Nixon's last state of the union address he was set to propose a US Soviet program of countermeasures to combat the coming ice age? The were removed at the last minute. These included building a giant dam across the Bering Sea to keep the freezing arctic waters out of the Pacific and a proposal to cover the ice caps in soot, black being attractive to heat. This was 40 years ago, as many years from today as Nixon was from Dachau and 100 years after the devil's great invention, the combustion engine. Climate "science" has gone in 50 years from predicting an ice age to predicting an inferno, not to worry though they have a fool proof plan to combat either contingency.)
So I guess it fair to say in the first place that I don't believe the science.
In the second, it seems to me oddly coincidental and a might peculiar that the very things that the left find abhorrent about western civilization - corporations, capitalism, individual liberty, progress, the usual bugbears - are the very things that cause man made climate change, and that the antidotes to AGW are the very things socialists would advocate for in its absence: more and bigger government; more and greater regulation; less freedom; less comfort; more sacrifice for the common good. It's uncanny. The very things the left rails against are the very things that are going to destroy the planet and the only thing that will save the planet is: their political agenda wrapped up in a nice little altruistic bow designed to make the armchair virtue signalers feel oh so very good about themselves and their sacrifices. #savingtheplanet #prius #solarpanels
In the third place - and this one is strange to even me - is the parallel between global warming and other flood myths: man failure to atone for his sins causes an angry god to bring the waters to cleanse the earth.
A charitable man gave away everything he had to the animals. His family deserted him, but when he gave his last meal to the god Ouende, Ouende rewarded him with three handfuls of flour which renewed itself and produced even greater riches. Then Ouende advised him to leave the area, and sent six months of rain to destroy his selfish neighbors. The descendants of the rich man became the present human race. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.htmlEvery culture in the world has a flood myth. That's the mandingo's. Now the post moderns have one too and it fits the narrative: man is the villain of the post modern world.
And finally - because I'm even starting to bore myself - I don't know a lot of things for sure but I know this: everything everyone says most of the time is false and the louder and more vehement they are about its truth the more likely it is to be a lie.
The earth is a vast epochal system subject to forces man does not even understand. The idea that he can control them is laughable and the only thing more absurd is the idea that it matters.