It's anthropogenic global warming, and the vast majority of the world's scientists have been saying that consistently for over 30 years. The question is as irrelevant as "What is it then, ellipsoidal earth or flat earth?"
You've mentioned your fear of world government before, and I guess that's tied into your tax comment. If a strongly held belief places you at odds with what the vast majority of the world's scientists have been saying consistently for over 30 years despite huge pressure from the largest corporations on earth looking to protect their profits, perhaps it's a hint that your ideology has holes in it?
Will you ignore all other tragedies of the commons as well? At present global warming is just one exacerbating factor in the severe depletion of the earth's resources under the weight of nearly 8 billion humans. How do you plan to deal with such tragedies of the commons without taxing or unified regulation? Do we actively exterminate people, or just avoid taxing them until almost everyone and everything is dead?
From what I've read in the past, you appear to be a decent human being in other ways. I guess you're lashing out a little above, but I can only pity your state of severe corporate brainwashing.
Sorry, I haven't been sleeping well and used harsh language in my post while severely lacking sleep. I'll try to clarify.
My main philosophy is "how do we know that the temperature rise and ice loss would not currently be happening in a very similar manner if humans did not exist at all?" The earth has gone through what, 7 mass extinction events already, how do we know that it isn't just on a cycle towards number 8, irregardless of any human intervention?
That is more of my thinking. I also think a lot of carbon taxes are ridiculous and do nothing to solve the problem. The Paris Accord was a joke....ok China and India, the worst polluters, can keep expanding for at least 10 more years while all western nations wind down and pay a lot of money to......what? Export their industry to China and India who are not bound by the agreement?
Do gas taxes really make most people drive less? Even The Washington Post argues that ya, raising gas tax won't change people's habits.
Also, why did Al Gore preach global sea level rising from melting ice caps and then use the profits from his book to buy a several million dollar beach house? Idiots that are contradictory make people skeptical
I think if you bothered to read more about the science from reputable sources, you'd appreciate how confident we are that this is man made. But again, if you read my last comment, the sane thing is not to wait until we're 100% sure that we've doomed ourselves, it's to make sure that we're safe, and we're decades past that already. Structures are built to be safe under the vast majority of operating conditions, you wouldn't argue to continue using a bridge with the assurance that the best engineers are confident that it's going to collapse soon, but they can't yet be absolutely certain. Why would you take that insane stance for the world's climate?
No need to apologize as I can take much harsher language, and sometimes it's nice to speak plainly.
what is it then, global warming or global cooling? What does your science actually think will happen? Ice age or lava age? You kind of keep changing that every few years so you can bring on more taxes