Do you believe in physics, the science that deals with the properties and interrelationships of matter and energy?
If you do, then you must agree that, on our earth, a liquid (such as water) flows freely, assumes the shape of its container, seeks its own level, and its elevation is everywhere the same.
And, if you do, then you must also agree that a substance that is not a liquid or a gas is a solid; a substance that has length, breadth, and thickness (such as water ice).
In the absence of enough heat energy the substance, water, will accumulate as a solid (water ice) and in this state it will not easily flow.
But what happens if you add enough heat energy, more than our earth has seen for ten thousand years: you cannot deny; since we have, above, assumed that you believe in physics; that this water ice will become liquid water and eventually flow down to the sea and raise its level everywhere the same.
Now since you do believe in physics, you must also believe in the greenhouse effect: the excessive accumulation of heat and water vapor in the earth’s atmosphere caused by increased presents of pollutants which retain more solar radiation. You must also agree that carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of these pollutants; since the effect of its going from 278 parts per million, where it was for ten thousand years, to 390 parts per million, where it is today, is causing the earth’s temperature to rise. And this temperature rise is causing the arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland’s ice caps to melt along with hundreds of glaciers—this phenomenon is visible to the naked eye: its denial cannot be, rationally, supported.
Even if you insist that the increase in CO2 is being caused naturally, does it not make sense for humans to not add to it.
A tax on carbon emissions is the only truncheon stout enough to inflict the painful change needed.
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