If you love your kids and if you regard God’s creatiion as anything mildly worthwhile, or if you simply want to continue to ensure whatever monetary investments you have, then push hard for increased energy efficiencies and carbon limits now. Push really hard.

If you read my book, then you’ll see I have the exact opposite concern of yours. We are infinitely more likely to undertake too little action than too much. I will take a large bet that within 20 years (and probably 10) even you will concede that global warming is human caused and a catastrophe in the making.

The Oceans are facing a grave threat — but it is a triple whammy, since ocean acidification is likely to render the Southern Ocean lifeless (again unless we act quickly).

The environmental community is not going to lose credibility over global warming — but conservatives will if they block progressives from taking the necessary action.

I fear that we are going to hobble our whole society by needlessly forcing it into an energy-starved mode of existence.

My fear has that after the science is really settled — say, 40 years from now — and it becomes (in all likelihood) apparent that there never really was a climate crisis, then it will be politically impossible to dismantle all the anti-climate-change institutions, bureaucracies, taxes and regulations that we’ve saddled ourselves with. They’ll be too entrenched.

My fear is that hysteria over climate change will distract everyone from much more pressing (not to mention more real) ecological problems: such as the very scary condition of the world’s oceans, due to a double-whammy of pollution and overfishing.

My fear is that the whole ecological movement will suffer a severe blow to credibility after putting everything on the line for what is most likely a bogus issue.