Comment Or did I miss something. (Score 1) 1342
(1) All other things being equal atmospheric CO2 does cause planetary warming (incoming and outgoing IR wavelengths yadda yadda - pretty much everyone here understand it)
(2) C02 is going up steadily
(3) global temperatures are going up steadily.
(4) 2 & 3 correlate very strongly.
(5) If the effect is real then likely outcomes range from severely inconvenient to catastrophic.
Yes there are reasons to be sceptical because there are a lot feedback mechanisms some positive, some negative and they interact in complex ways. In fact the complexity is quite likely so great that we won't know for sure until the experiment runs to completion - to be certain we would need say a couple of thousand Earths to experiment on.
Somewhere in the region of 99% of published climate scientists (or so I hear tell) go with anthropogenic warming. And yes it is also (just) possible that they are all in the grip of one form of group delusion or another. But there again who else are you going to trust? I mean we can't all drop the day jobs and re-run the research ourselves.
So what does a rational person do? Try and pretend it's not happening? Or fully support whatever measures are (very probably) necessary to avert a (very probably) looming crisis whose outcomes will (very probably) be unprecedented in human history
Or did I miss something?