For 28 of my 30 years on this planet, I have been an ardent supporter of theories of global warming and, later, “global climate change.” Well, during the years in the beginning I wasn’t really an ardent supporter of anything, but I accepted the wisdom of the prevailing theory of the day and had no particular objections. 
I had long been taught those theories (in my youth it was only “global warming”) exclusively and had no idea that any dissent was possible, much less credible. I distinctly remember covering the chapter on “the greenhouse effect” in Mrs. Williams 7th grade science class, although I was already familiar with virtually every one of the definitions and concepts already. I also distinctly remember watching the tailpipe of a parent’s car idle at the bus stop one winter morning in second grade and trying to imagine how much greenhouse gas they were putting out (although the alarm was being raised on aerosol cans equally with cars back then, or so it seemed to me).
In fact, when I started to become more politically involved after the 2000 election, it was a point of disagreement between myself and the conservative “pundits” who seemed to have a more sensible philosophy on government, economy and foreign policy in virtually all other areas. Another personal experience I distinctly remember was a 2007 conversation with my brother in which I expressed concerns that conservative voices – which had wonderful ideas that would increase our prosperity, security and prestige – were relegating themselves to irrelevancy by clinging to such a ridiculous position as that of a global climate change skeptic.
But the more research I did, the more convinced I became that the skeptics at least had concerns that both seemed reasonable and, rather than being addressed in scientific manner, were simply ignored by the western governments, scientists beholden to those governments, and the education and media institutions that I was finding were even more beholden to those governments.
The more I looked, the more “manmade global climate change” seemed to be a house of cards. Sure, once the fundamental assumptions are accepted, it all seems very consistent and reasonable, but I have yet to come across a “manmade global climate change” supporter who has ever questioned or looked into those fundamental assumptions apart from pulling up the government-produced reports used to justify their bids to increase regulations (the very things being impeached by the objections).
In the coming weeks, I intend to walk you through my journey, as best as I can remember the major twists and turns that it took, in an effort to explain how I personally went from global warming supporter to skeptic.
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in the Mid-West represent “Conservative,” or that they comprise a majority of the Right, then you have bought into the misinformation and have no clue what the difference is between Right and Left.
