CeeBee wrote:
Matt Giwer wrote in sci.astro.seti:

Climate change for human causes is a scam, a con game, a stupid
greenie religion.

It's generally accepted as being a scam, a con game, and a stupid
greenie religion in some political religions, and the cause of all evil
in some greenie religions.
As religions mostly appeal to parrots, both religions are parroted
widely and eagerly.

This got crossposted here because of the single data point problem
which also faces SETI.

Climate change due to human activity is generally accepted as being a
reality by the vast majority of the scientific community, regardless of
their political affiliations, although there's no agreement nor
sufficient knowlegde about the extent, the danger, and the effects.

Scientists are not immune to political fads. The very fact that the
"vast majority" agree when real scientists do not offer public
opinions on subjects outside their professional expertise shows it is
political. The vast majority of biologists do not have independent
opinions on the big bang they only know the common opinion in
astrophysics. Any suggestion of any vast majority can only be of what
the professional community in that field holds. It cannot be a
personal knowledge statement.

In fact the only opinions worth reviewing are those of people
specializing in predictive global climatology. The field sort of
exists. Getting back to the single data point issue, so far it has had
no successes as it is too new, seriously barely ten years old.

It lacks elementary information in matters which are currently
consider crucial. CO2 is considered crucial. But fully one third of
the carbon cycle is unknown; completely unaccounted for by anyone. I
myself do not consider it reasonable to identify human activity as the
cause of a few parts per thousand increase in atmospheric CO2 when 1/3
of the carbon cycle is unknown. I expect a bit more.

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