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A steep and observable rise in atmospheric CO2 is not in dispute
however, nor are thinning ice caps and receding glaciers.
CO2 levels are, by some reports, approaching unprecedented levels.
Is all or any of this a natural phenomenon with no correlation
to fossil fuels? Some correlation? Total correlation?
Only a fool would say there is no correlation.

All true and correct. Unfortunately, there are many millions of fools.
Note, for example, that global warming has been a very real phenomenon for
well over a century, a matter of great concern to some few thoughtful
individuals for nearly as long, documented fact for decades, and the
scientific literature is voluminous and incontestable.......which is to say
that it's simply been a myth......till now. NOW, we have a movie! It is
just a matter of time till the DVD comes out, at which time it gets on
T.V.......at which time it becomes (at long last) REALLY real!

Global warming has become a political issue because the ideological
right sees it as a threat to (their) ideal of unregulated and
unrestrained business growth (free market capitalism).

That's only a small part of a large complex of reasons. The short version:
global warming is a political issue because it IS real and it is merely the
biggest and most far reaching thing that has confronted our species since
the last recession of the continental ice-sheets.

Wolfgang

Regardless the causes, I wouldn't make any long term real estate
investments in the Bahamas.