Wrong Question

Richard Roeper complains in his TV show that the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” does not tell both side of the argument. That is certainly a valid criticism. He uses “whether human beings are responsible for global warming” as an example for the questions only one side of which is argued in the film. I have not seen the film but I do not doubt Roeper on this point. This human-responsibility question is a faulted question, however. The people who want nothing done about global warming use it as an excuse and a delay tactic. The question sounds important but has no real meaning to it. So people believe that global warming is a cyclical thing with nothing to do with CO2 we created. This may be the case, but we know that we do make a ridiculous amount of CO2 and that does have an effect on the temperature of this planet. Even if we take the position that our CO2 production is not the main cause of global warming, reducing it would more than likely slow down the temperature increase. No matter what the answer to the question is, CO2 reduction is probably going to be helpful. To say because it is not the main cause, we should not do anything about it is simply stupid. Being cold may not be the main cause of getting flu, virus is, but that does not mean that we should walk around naked in the cold during the flu season. If the world is going to end and cutting down CO2 will give the world a couple of decades more, why not? After all, we are a culture that would spend hundred of thousands of dollars to extend the life of one person for a day. What is a few billions for every human beings on the planet?