re: Your occasional reminder that global warming is real,

It's a way more nuanced issue that believing it's real or not real.

This is becoming the new "racism" where any level of divergence from what you are supposed to believe gets you labeled as some anti-science redneck.

My opinions:

Global Warming is real.
Humans have some affect.
No one knows how much affect.
No one knows whether those effects are positive or negative.
The issue has been used as a political (and revenue) tool with research falsified and exaggerated on both sides thus causing much distrust and nonbelief.
Our ability to make any significant changes that would help (if help is even needed) is minimal.
None of this matters because technology will advance us past a carbon-based energy economy within 50-75 years. Even the worst models don't show any catastrophic affects during that time period.