I don't doubt that the planet is warming up. The science is pretty conclusive on that point. I experience it with my own sensory organs as well. It was 114F in Tucson yesterday and, with only a couple of exceptions, each summer that I've lived here (this will be the 20th) has been hotter, and generally drier, than the last. My mind's not quite made up as to if or to what degree humans have influenced this trend, but it seems to me that we sure aren't helping matters any.
I certainly don't think "global warming" is a conspiracy to make money through carbon credits or taxes. There's already literally trillions of dollars being made every year by traditional (coal, oil, natural gas) energy suppliers so if the money leads anywhere, it would seem to lead to suppression of information about the human influence on global warming rather than the manufacturing of hoax data to support alternative clean energy money-making schemes. Petrochemical companies have way more financial muscle than Universities, or solar cell manufacturers, or liberal think tanks, or all of them put together. If anyone can drive a political agenda, it's big money.
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