Originally Posted by
Bankstown Boy
.... if we are going to rent our hair shirts, then I would prefer proof, not wet dreams. There is no evidence to date of the C part of CAGW. There are projections, predictions, fears & hopes but nothing that stands alone as proof.
I’m as conservative as they come. But if the experts are predicting catastrophe, or even the possibility of it, we are stupid to ignore it and arrogant to deny it.
Science is messy; there is almost always incomplete data, uncertainty, anomalies and disagreement. That’s why those of us who aren’t climate scientists go with the scientific consensus. To do otherwise is to assume you know enough to go with a minority opinion.
You can’t Google your way into being a climate scientist. But you
can Google your way into having just enough understanding to bolster your own prejudices.