The first problem is climate cult members refuse to debate.
They side step debate by launching character attacks on skeptics.
Then they claim there's no need to debate by concocting phony "surveys" that claim 97% of scientists agree.
They have no problem when fewer than 1% of their online surveys are returned.
They word their questions in such a way that I'd be in the 97% too -- and I am more skeptical than any climate change writer you will ever read/
Here are my views:
(1)
There's no scientific proof CO2 caused any of the warming in the past 150 years,
(2)
There's no evidence that the climate in 2017 is abnormal, or that climate change in the past 150 years was abnormal,
(3)
There are hundreds of scientific studies that show adding CO2 to the air accelerates green plant growth, and is greening the Earth.
Based on those studies, and actual CO2 enrichment practices of greenhouse owners, doubling or tripling the CO2 level in the air would be wonderful for producing more food ... especially for vegetarians.
(4)
The only consensus about global warming is that humans have some (unknown) effect on the climate -- that is the only "97% consensus", and I agree too
For number (4), we all know cities are warmer than surrounding rural areas -- that's man made climate change.
Climate cult members confuse people by substituting a meaningless, generic phrase -- "climate change" -- for what they are really predicting:
- Runaway global warming caused almost entirely by humans burning fossil fuels (which is usually called catastrophic arthropogenic (man made) global warming, or CAGW).
Our planet has warmed significantly since Canada was covered by ice 20,000 years ago.
How much of that warming was caused by man made CO2 -- probably very little, or none.
The melting ice increased sea level about 400 feet in the past 20,000 years -- only six inches in the past century.
Fossil fuels are being blamed for half the sea level rise, of about six inches, in the past century.
If that was true, then fossil fuels can only be blamed for three inches of the 400 foot sea level rise in the past 20,000 years!
Meanwhile, there's no scientific proof burning fossil fuels caused any sea level rise at all, or that sea level rise has been accelerating.
In fact, climate cult beliefs are not based on real science -- just wild guess predictions of the future climate, and their Big Lie, repeated so often that many people believe it: Carbon dioxide controls Earth's average temperature!
The climate cult is based on 40 years of playing computer games that led to 40 years of wrong wild guesses of the future climate.
The causes of climate change are still unknown -- that's the main reason computer models have predicted triple the actual warming.
Making wrong predictions has nothing to do with real science.
In real science, the predictions have to be right.
In climate "science", the coming climate catastrophe is always coming ... but never arrives.
CO2 is a false boogeyman -- the PhD scientists and their supercomputers are bought and paid for "props" to make the predictions of leftist government bureaucrats more believable.
The coming global warming catastrophe is a leftist fantasy -- a false boogeyman used to scare people, with the goal of empowering central governments.
In fact, a real climate catastrophe does not ever have to arrive for the scare to work.
If enough people FEAR a catastrophe is coming, they will allow their government to seize more power to fight the boogeyman:
(1) More control of corporate and personal energy use,
(2) New taxes on energy use, and
(3) Generally telling everybody how to live … which was the leftist goal from the beginning.
Leftists are "selling" their beloved socialism by falsely claiming strong central governments are mandatory to “save the Earth”.