Engineer Andy's Journal: man made climate change???

Over the past few months my scepticism at the reality of human induced climate change has increased. I own no stocks in oil or coal companies, drive a small fuel efficient car. I generally try to reduce my usage of resources, not out of an environmental fervour, but out of an effort to not waste things. As an engineer, a designer of things, I spend all day making things efficient and cost effecitve. I reduce waste without reducing the utility of the thing. I do the same in my personal life as well.

I might cop a flaming for this, but the climate has changed in the past. It has been warmer when coal wasn't being burned in the furnaces of industry, and it has been cooler as well. What piqued my scepticism about anthropomorphic climate change was the almost religious fervour that people were beating up a frenzy about all the ills that would happen, and how mention of climate change was in the news on an almost daily basis. A lot of mentioning that "the consensus of scientific opinion" says certain things. Science is not about finding a consensus but about having a scepticism and seeking to find the truth, however unpopular it might be.

When any dissent gets shouted down, you move from science to religion.