Why am I so confident that that we have nothing to worry about as far as the demise of the planet due to global warming?
The pattern and cycles of nature are such that the planet goes through a warming and cooling cycle every 40 years or so. As recently as 1975, some of the same scientists that are currently warning us of demise due to warming trends were warning us about our demise due to an up coming ICE AGE. Yes the headlines in the media were all about COOLING and how Canada would be frozen over in ice by now, caused by humans of course.
Here is an excerpt from Time magazine in 1974:
"However
widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when
meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they
find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past
three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing.
Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for
the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of
another ice age. [...] Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the
cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other
climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the
atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more
and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
[...] Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be
extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a
1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could
tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding
down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years."
If you would like to read more excerpts from books, newspapers and magazines from the 1970's click here you will notice some familiar names, fears and blame from the ice age to the warming.
You also read more of the cycles going back to 1895 here.
I feel that we may have already started a new cooling cycle, it will not be known for a few more years, we are certainly due for a cooling cycle. It will not mean that the world is coming to an end, just a a normal cycle.
Having said all that, there is nothing wrong with recycling or solar and wind power, those things are great, we just don't need to force it upon the world built on a fearful foundation.
I hope you find peace or confidence or at least less fearful that we are going through a cycle and that we aren't going to be flooded out or some other end of the world scenario.