Global Warming is a hoax... according to...

Over the holidays I had a big argument with my 74 year old uncle who said and argued very well that global warming is a hoax, not man made and it’s all blown out of proportion. I don't agree with him but my uncle is a smart man, extremely wealthy and worked hard all his life. He is very well respected in the community so I listened to him growing up but he is not right about everything. As you can understand it's hard to argue with a man if his power. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> After arguing over and over again I finally gave up on the old man and decided to let it rest. It still didn’t’ sit well with me. How can he sit here with his grand children and argue global warming is a hoax? I told him to research his arguments and come back to me with convincing arguments and then we will have it out. :)He did and sent me this article: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/article_details.aspx?pubID=5081

This is my reply to his email. (My uncle still argued global warming wasn’t caused by man.  -----

That is a great article and I have read about Bjorn many times. I have even read his book - Cool it. Great book!  Bjorn is also very well known as a skeptical environmentalist like most people are including you my dear uncle.  Bjorn is no doubt a great influencer. In fact he was named on of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004 and one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian in 2008. He has also written several articles posted by Wall Street Journal and in the NY Times. (http://www.lomborg.com/faq/)
 
Enough about his credentials - he's got em!
 
The argument you had was: "global warming isn't caused by man". The article you just sent to me contradicts your statement about what the cause was; man made or not?  This article is based on Bjorn's book Cool It! where he says on page 8 and I quote:  "global warming is real and man-made. It will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of this century".
 
He also says the solution to global warming is and I quote: "focus on the smartest solutions to the problems that the world faces, whether we're dealing with climate change, communicable diseases, malnutrition, agricultural subsidies, or anything else". 
 
So, this article addresses that global warming is in fact a real man made problem and you can't deny that. Neither can we deny that the world has many other problems as well. So where do we begin? What do we fix first? I don't know the answer to that but if everyone helps by doing his or her little part then eventually we can create a better world. One man can't do much and likewise with an ant hill. It isn't built by one ant - ant hills are built by millions of helper ants. 
 
Only together and united can we address the problems in this world. Maybe not in our lifetime, but we have a responsibility to our children and so forth. Raising awareness about problems is easy; to change the views of the world is much harder. ----  I don’t know how this email will be received by him but I’ll let you know ASAP.Christoffer