Global Warming

Ok, so first of all, I think "Global Warming" is a misnomer, and that is being capitalized right now by nay-sayers. It's more accurate to go with "Climate Change." What I want to know is, why it's so important for people not to believe in it? Does it go against your religion? I don't think so. Is it that you don't think God would do something like that to you? That's like me not believing in cancer, I have to say. I don't really care one way or the other if the theory of global warming is "true." I think humans are very destructive to their world, overuse their resources, and it's biting them in the butt. The arguments between the religious and scientific worlds about it are silly to me. One of them that especially gets me is that the religious contingent is putting it off as a normal warming period that happens over the Earth's history. What history? The one that scientists have mapped as being billions of years old? But how's that possible if the Earth is only 6000 years old? So silly. The point is that regardless of what has happened in the past, no matter how long anyone thinks that is - since the 1950's the amount of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere has reached huge heights. It's from cutting trees, which use the carbon from the air, tilling soil, which stores carbon under the surface and burning fossil fuels for energy and plastic products. The main evidence and concern is sea level rise and glacial melt. Have these things happened before? Of course. Is it a natural course of the world? Yes. Does that mean we should ignore it? No. Whether or not we can stop it or slow it down at this point, we need to keep our eyes open and realize that we aren't immune to the powers of nature. We can't just waste our resources when it is very clear that we are rapidly approaching a state of major limitations. Most of the world has already gotten there, and the US is just starting to experience what it means to have the world say, "No, I'm sorry, you can't have everything you want." Maybe the world doesn't care so much about us. Maybe it's just a place, like our houses. Maybe it will go on living or being whatever it is even after we make it inhospitible for ourselves.

I used to think that the Creation/Evolution argument was there so that one side could have an excuse not to learn anything new, and the other side could go on creating technology without a conscience. When taken together, the two sides never seemed mutually exclusive to me. Now, I feel like "Climate Change" and most environmental issues are the same with reversed roles. The science side is seeing the results of their behavior and wanting to correct the mistakes their technology has produced, and the religious side is saying, "No, we want to keep using that technology without a conscience." Why?