"The world is warming, whether we like or it or not, whether we're causing it or not". Perhaps you should try reading my words instead of just assuming I'm a knuckle-dragging, climate-denialist.
CO2 causing warming is incontrovertible. Man-made emissions increasing the CO2 concentration is incontrovertible. That this has a warming effect is incontrovertible.
Your words sometimes appear to be contradictory. In the first statement for example, you appear to indicate doubt that humans are causing climate change. In the second you're saying that there's no doubt that that humans are causing climate change.
I do not think I'm being contradictory. That's the trouble with this religion/discussion, too many people consider the issue binary and clear-cut. It most certainly isn't.
I freely acknowledge the science of greenhouse gasses (a) because it's true, (b) because if I don't I get called a believer in fake science by people looking to shut the debate down.
So, yes humans contribute to CO2 concentrations and ergo to warming. So if you're one of those people who say "warming is bad because the science says so", you can stop reading now.
After that factual statement is when it gets messy. Will the warming be good or bad (or both!) ? Of course there can be good, warding off ice ages and more relevantly increasing the greening of the earth. More people die of cold then heat, you know. I see people posting in this thread about staying away from the coast. News flash folks, the sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended, it's not something new brought on by man-made global warming.
Most importantly, if we need to, what can be done in a cost-effective manner ?? There's bugger-all point in spending billions of dollars on programmes that have no measurable or positive economic effect. Well-meaning but delusional hypocrites supporting programmes for "green power" while continuing to consume unabated are just fools. China and India are absolute behemoths and they're going to consume whatever they get their hands on.
Lastly, check out this little gem from the IPCC's AR5:
"For most economic sectors, the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers (medium evidence,
high agreement). Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of
socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact
of climate change"