I'm the opposite of that. When I first heard of the CO2 greenhouse theory back around 1980, I immediatlely thought it made sense. I continued to think that for ... gosh, 10 or 20 years. Of course, I recognized there wasn't a chance in hell of humanity stopping burning fossil fuels (even if we did, China, India and the rest of the 3rd world wouldn't) ... so I figured humanity was running a big science experiment.
However, I've paid attention to the debate - there actually is one despite the efforts of alarmists to prevent it - and I became more and more impressed with 'the rest of the story.' Things like CO2 being a trace gas, a minor contributor to earth's greenhouse effect, the need for CO2 in the atmosphere to sustain life, the reliance of alarmists on models with suspect giant positive feedbacks to warming caused by CO2.
I've also noted the alarmist attempt to declare the debate over before it took place - see Al Gore's attempted browbeating of Richard Lindzen of MIT in 1992. I've read the Climategate tapes showing key climate alarmists subverting the FOI laws, the peer review process, and conspiring to hide their data and misrepresent a key iconic graph - see "Mike's Nature Trick". I noticed Phil Jones resigning in disgrace as a result and confessing there's been no statistical warming in 17 years. I've seen alarmist Peter Gleick confess to stealing info from the Heartland Institute and misrepresenting the stolen info to the press. It's obvious he also engaged in criminal forgery. And it's clear that the alarmist community APPROVES hiding data, theft, and fraud. I've discovered thatv historical temperatures have been "adjusted" in ways that ALWAYS resulted in lowering past temperatures and making recent temperatures seem warmer as a result.
Seriously, can you possibly defend hiding data and fraud as right for scientists? Shouldn't this tell any independent minded intelligent person the alarmist community are fraudsters and can't be trusted?
You're obviously someone who mouths whatever the liberal elite tell you you're supposed to think without thinking about it yourself at all. |
