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Originally Posted by BBKing
I do detect that you're (hopefully unconsciously) adopting the US administration's faith-based 'scientists can't agree therefore it isn't happening' argument, which is nonsensical.
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That's not my stance. Its not that scientists don't agree, its just that they are guessing. They might be right, they might be wrong, but either way they are still only guessing, they can't prove or disprove anything. We are only in the observation and hypothesis stages atm. We are observing we are putting CO2 into the air, we are observing that the planet is warming. Scientists are guessing as a hypothesis, that they are directly related. There is no evidence for this, hence why everyone keeps saying "might", and "could" If there is a direct link between the two, then it wouldn't be that hard to prove. The planet may just be warming anyway, or because of some other cause. However what is harder to prove is that this warming, will cause the conditions they say it will. Its hard to prove, but the burden is on them to prove it, and until someone proves or disproves something, I won't get whipped up in a paranoid frenzy until something gets proven. Until "might"s get replaced with "will"s
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If you wait for every scientist to agree before you trust something you wouldn't get on an aeroplane for one thing (since there's still a lot of debate about exactly why a plane can fly).
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News to me, I thought everyone knew that it is because of the aerofoil shape wings. That's easily proven, planes with them tend to get up and stay up in the air better than planes without it. Plus you can prove it with string, a straw and a piece of paper. That's proof incontrovertible, and something we don't have with global warming, the science is too young.