This may be so for "intelligent and honest" people, but if they're not climatologists, I wouldn't put too much stock in their (or my) opinion on the matter.

From what I read, the problem we face in the very near future is that even a small change in average temperaures can cause:

- Much more frequent and severe weather-related catastrophes (flooding, hurricanes, etc.).

- A breakdown in the long-stable ocean currents that impact climate far more than the few degrees average change, and that can cause severe changes in the ocean-based food chain.

- Reaching and exceeding tipping points in sea ice and glacier existence, leading to enough sea-level rise that many ocean-front cities (and we humans love building our big cities by the ocean) will need to resort to sea-walls a la the Netherlands to avoid getting flooded, if they can even afford that (and many huge cities in third-world countries can't).

Now, I'm not a climatologist so I cannot prove any of the above is true and accurate. However, there's that funny, but plausible T-shirt that reads, "I'm a bomb-disposal technician. If you see me runninng, follow me!"

So, if I see most mainstream climatologists think human-generated climate change is a massive problem that may become intractable in the near future, I'll follow them rather than blithely ignore and wait for the explosion. This notwithstanding the uninformed opinion of "intelligent and honest" people.

Just sayin'...