http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHP9Rh-ooh0Global warming is happening. I don't know who has been feeding you all of the conspiracy theories to believe otherwise.
Just look for the warmest (globally, on average) years on record and you will find the proof there. In the hard, irrefutable data.
10 warmest years on record (°C anomaly from 1901–2000 mean)
Year Global[66] Land[67] Ocean[68]
2010 0.6590 1.0748 0.5027
2005 0.6523 1.0505 0.5007
1998 0.6325 0.9351 0.5160
2003 0.6219 0.8859 0.5207
2002 0.6130 0.9351 0.4902
2006 0.5978 0.9091 0.4792
2009 0.5957 0.8621 0.4953
2007 0.5914 1.0886 0.3900
2004 0.5779 0.8132 0.4885
2012 0.5728 0.8968 0.4509
It is going to be a problem. Sure we don't know exactly what we're going to face. But we have to lower carbon dioxide emissions.
I hate the carbon tax idea. It cannot be applied to the world today.
There are many interests that want to keep us from doing things that make sense and allow for more freedom. For example the Koch brothers (the ultra-rich horrible people) try to impose fines to people with solar panels and disallow them to sell their energy back to the grid (a positive action for all of us).
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3SDcOZLksk (not an academic source)
Just look at all the conspiracy theories on this thread and you will realize why Reddit took this particular action. Not everyone has the time to keep reading the same comments from a bunch of people who have believed the propaganda of the two-faced oil-producing profiteering companies that are raping this earth.
On one side they give money to anti-climate change think-tanks and on the other they give way less money to do climate research and alternative technology research. It is all bullshit.
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNV4qiuKU4 (not an academic source)
There are new exciting technologies that put more power back to us. And people should be working to improve them. We should also cut excesses that further damage the earth's climate. It may just save the future generations from a lot of problems.