Global Warming = another excuse for us to pay taxes. Simple as that.
There's no denying that changes are happening, but they aren't as dramatic as they make it sound or as laughable movies such as The Day After Tomorrow are showing them.
I can understand being skeptical, but think of it this way, what if you're wrong? What if it is man made? Just look at a few of the spots like I mentioned in Beijing earlier. Where places are becoming nigh unlivable. Or 90's reports of punctures in the ozone layer, and how it caused physical harm/blindness.
The way I look at it, it's better to have been wrong, while doing something that improves our way of life (i.e. living cleaner, reducing smog, producing more fuel efficient vehicles, ect.), than to get to a point in the future where we are past a point of no return. Kicking ourselves, because we did nothing in the past because we assumed it was just a political issue.
In the long run, cleaning up the environment makes for better living conditions, even if it costs more in the short run. Having cleaner air, less polluted water, more efficient vehicles, more efficient energy. It may take time, and cost money in the short run. However in the long run we'll end up with lower costing energy bills, and healthier bodies (we will be drinking cleaner water, breathing in less toxic fumes, ect.). We can make it into some liberal vs. conservative issue, or quit being babies, suck it up, and do something to avoid going down a path we know is going to hurt us regardless of whether it harms a warmer planet as a whole, or just makes small plots land more inhospitable.
It's like a married couple who are having trouble with bills. They're living unhealthy lifestyles, and miserable. Their health is failing, due to diet, and day to day living. They continue to convince themselves that it's ok to give up on bigger dreams that could lead to a better life, because they don't want to give up what little comforts they have in the now. They continue to eat at McDonalds 3 times a day, because it's cheaper, and faster than cooking a meal at home. They continue to be behind on bills because they don't want to go without the newest devices, and technological comforts. 5 years down the road, nothing's changed. They're in the same hole, and in worse shape. Where if they had just taken the short term risk to strive for a long term solution, they may have been in a better spot at that same point down the road.
At some point we have to stop thinking, "But, it's too much work! It costs too much! I don't want to put in the effort!", and start saying, "I don't want to be living in worse conditions than I currently am in today 10 years down the road. I don't want to be forever beholden to increasing gas prices. I don't want to be stuck in this rut forever, convincing myself there's nothing I can do." At some point you have to make some small sacrificies if you want to make it anywhere in life. I think the same can be said for the state of our environment. The way we use up natural resources, and pollute the environment, with the way our energy consumptions going to continue to rise as the environment worsens, it's not really sustainable.
Even if it were some political conspiracy to increase taxes...so what? What's the harm in improving things, regardless of the reason for starting that improvement? We let stupid politics shape the country for the worse all the time. Why lump a positive change in with the bad? Why let thinking it's stupid politicians pushing it be a motivation to not do something we know we should anyway?
t: Since the climate is going to do something...I guess we are doomed! 
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