There are four questions that hang over the controversy about global warming;
1. Is it really happening?
2. Is human activity causing it?
3. Is it so bad?
4. Can it be avoided?
Despite the doubts often expressed in the general uninformed (or rather, misinformed) population, 1. is a settled matter of scientific fact, and has been for some decades, I think. The Earth's globe
is warming.
The current denialist programme accepts that global warming is happening, but maintains that it is a natural process that we have nothing to do with. In short, it is Global Warming but it isn't Anthropogenic.
It is this doubt about the second question that sustains the enduring popular doubt about the first question. And the third question adds to the problem that the public have in understanding the issue. Why should I try to get myself better informed if it doesn't matter anyway? In fact, warming sounds good, doesn't it?
Thus the public are hard to rouse because there are so many opportunities for doubt on the issue. Settling climate doubts is a game of Climate-Sceptic-Whac-A-Mole.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking away all hope on question 4 ...
This article,
Climate change key in Syrian conflict – and it will trigger more war in future | The Independent, addresses the tricky question 3.
Yes, folks, Anthropogenic Global Warming is bad. In fact, let's call it evil.