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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Except you are disregarding two things. Firstly, scientists often disagree amongst themselves. Secondly, it was Pat Michaels who criticised the hockey stick graph. He was a climatologist, not a pleb.
You really shouldn't be so gullible as to believe everything scientists come up with. They have been wrong so many times before.
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Scientists do agree amongst themselves because they're not a monolithic bloc, that is a strength and not a weakness in the scientific method. However there is near universal agreement amongst scientists that global warming is occurring and is man made.
As for not being so gullible to believe 'everything scientists come up with' as opposed to what exactly? What people reckon based on no scientific method or evidence at all? This is how we get anti-vaccination groups and flat earthers. People entirely ignorant on a subject forming communities around their idiocy.
The Theory of Relativity, Penicillin, Electricity, Antibiotics and splitting the atom. These discoveries came from scientists and not from the ever-constant group of people who sneered at them. When scientists have been wrong further science has disproved them since that's the entire point, to learn new things, so you rarely go wrong by following the scientific consensus.