desert dude
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What was my point in the OP?
Simple. To refute the over worked assertion that there is some huge consensus that "all the scientists" agree that global warming is caused by the activities of man. There is no such consensus.
Further, as Dr K pointed out, a consensus, even if it existed, does not imply that the matter is correctly settled. There have been numerous examples of intelligent consensual opinions that turned out to be completely wrong.
I am not arguing that the climate does not seem to be warming, it has been warm lately, although a few decades of warmer than average temperatures is hardly a "geological trend". The climate models on which the AGW hypothesis is based have been shown to be wrong when compared to actual temperature data; this ought to give you and me reason to believe that perhaps "we just don't know".
Making large changes to mankind's activities based on such "science", however "settled" Unclebuck and his merry men seem to think the science is, is dumb.
Simple. To refute the over worked assertion that there is some huge consensus that "all the scientists" agree that global warming is caused by the activities of man. There is no such consensus.
Further, as Dr K pointed out, a consensus, even if it existed, does not imply that the matter is correctly settled. There have been numerous examples of intelligent consensual opinions that turned out to be completely wrong.
I am not arguing that the climate does not seem to be warming, it has been warm lately, although a few decades of warmer than average temperatures is hardly a "geological trend". The climate models on which the AGW hypothesis is based have been shown to be wrong when compared to actual temperature data; this ought to give you and me reason to believe that perhaps "we just don't know".
Making large changes to mankind's activities based on such "science", however "settled" Unclebuck and his merry men seem to think the science is, is dumb.