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The White House has edited scientific data for years; this isn't simply a Bush phenomenon.

The problem with global warming is that for every scientist who produces a detailed study showing how quickly the average global temperature is rising and that disaster is imminent there will be another scientist with a detailed study shows that the current warming trend is part of the normal golbal climate cycle and that no danger is present.

In that regard, climatologists are much like economists.

What would the worst-case scenario be is global warming is past the point of no return? The food belts would shift, coastlines would change, the weather would be freaky, and in the meantime we would continue living life as normally as possible.

If it isn't global warmning, then some other global disaster will significantly negatively impact the population. Asteroid impact, supervolcano eruption, viral pandemic, etc.