Here’s some points to think about. It also helps to keep in mind the arrogance and unwillingness to admit mistakes (unless under great pressure, academic scrutiny, and media observation) which generally characterizes the scientific establishment.
And the masses who swallow their pronouncements without critical thought tend to mirror those qualities.
Now think:
How old is the earth thought to be now, about 5 BILLION years, I believe is the current estimate. global temperatures have been markedly fluctuating since then, if recent measurements are at all representative. There have certainly been major fluctuations and minor fluctuations, and fluctuations and trends within larger fluctuations and trends.
And what temperature records do we have. Maybe 400 years of any kind of measurements. 100-200 years of somewhat scientifically controlled measurments, 50-75 years of accurate and relatively widespread measurements. And do we have yearly measurements over the vast expanses of the globe, urban areas, jungles, all over the oceans, in the oceans (the vast buffer of global temperatures), on the ground, 100 feet up, 2,000 feet up, 10 miles up, over all areas of the globe.
We expect to determine the meaningfulness of the current trend of temperature change in the context of the equivalent of a few seconds in a million years!
And what is the supposed culprit in this? Carbon dioxide, a small molecule found in 3 parts per 10, 000 in the atmosphere!
That’s enough for me, I’m getting tired. I dont have the time for this, but hopefully someone else will carry on the likely ensuing discussion, I’m not particularly interested.