Where do you guys stand on the issue of man-made Global Climate Change? I thought this issue was more or less unanimously agreed upon, that man-made carbon emissions have significantly increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and thereby warming our planet and wreaking havoc to our weather and the ecosystem. Climate change deniers, however, have casted doubts on the claim. They say that global warming is just a naturally occurring phenomenon and they've branded advocates of less carbon emissions as "alarmists" who are just seeking government funding for a "false" issue.

A week ago, I caught a program on SkyCable where Bobit Avila interviewed Chris Go, a self-styled authority on just about anything related to science, on this very subject. Both guys promoted the Climate Change Denialism perspective with seemingly convincing arguments (but they're easy to check, thanks to the internet, because the National Academy of Sciences has a pamphlet that's free to download which responds to these common denier arguments). They even said that coal-fired power plants are the way to go for mankind.

What I can't understand from Bobit and Chris is their motivation for doing this. Both these guys are conservative and orthodox Catholics. I thought they'd at least give some consideration to the fact that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences stand squarely on the side of Global Climate Change as a man-made phenomenon.

We recently have the storm of the century in Yolanda, an unprecedented signal no. 4. Don't these guys consider that the warmer oceans and rising sea levels may have contributed to more destructive typhoons?

I'm clearly on one side of the fence right now. I want the Climate Change deniers to enlighten us on why our increased carbon emissions should not be of any concern.