Four associated thoughts:
1. What is so offensive about the concept of human caused global warming?
Because the politicians are using this "theory" as a platform to take more money from people and essentially tell us how to live. People who are free, really don't like being told how to live.

2. "Gravy train"? (In the US, at least) spending on climate change research and initiatives is significantly less than spending on war.
Well. to that I would answer...duh! Protecting freedom is typically going to cost more than studying something unsubstantiated theories. Freedom aint free.

3. I appreciate many of the things that my tax dollars have provided.
Who doesn't enjoy free services. I enjoy astronomy and photography, cameras and telescopes cost lots of money, yet I'm not going to ask the country to subsidize my HOBBIES. I think the role of government is to protect it's citizens. And that's where it stops.

4. I have children.
Thanks to liberals who ban the use of DDT Africa now has million of children who have died and are dieing from malaria, Thanks to liberals who are simply trying to save the planet, food such as corn is being diverted from starving children in other countries, look at the riots. Global warming policy is simply going to keep poor and developing countries down, ie. China, India. Sorry, but I really don't want my children to grow up in a world where these liberal policies continue, I and many others are not going to be silent any longer