Wirebender -
This issue to me comes down to trust.
So you trust government at all levels and in all things? You trust government agencies, government owned schools, and non government agencies and schools who are funded by government collectively to the tune of hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars who claim to be providing scientific justification for government to institute taxes and regulation schemes that will literally net TRILLIONS of dollars over the coming decades to be honest even if honesty means watching all that potential money and power vanish in the blink of an eye?
Interesting.
Tell me, did you believe government when they said that the iraq war wasn't over oil? Do you believe government agencies when they say that fracking is harmless?
I figure none of us on this site have actually conducted research in glacial melt or rising sea levels, and I assume none of us on this site actually have the scientific skills to do so.
All one need know about glacial melt, and rising sea levels is that nothing that is happening today even comes close to the boundries of known natural variability.
The issue is whether the science, by which warmists claim that man is in some way responsible is sound and therein lies the fraud. The fact that you can't grasp the science and are therefore relegated to trusing one side or the other is a reflection on you, not me.
Again, it isn't whether glaciers are melting, or sea level is rising, it is whether the claims made by warmists are scientifically sound. Do the physics support the claims. For example, to date, not a single solitary warmist has named a single physical law that supports and predicts a greenhouse effect as is claimed by them while anyone who has even had high school physics can name at least 3 physical laws that state that no such greenhouse effect as described by warmists is possible.
I trust physics and math and I am able to understand both. Upon what do you base your trust in government?
And yet, you don't grasp that the cloud guys are proving that the claims of warmsts are grossly overblown and that the physics don't support their hypothesis.
I trust the UK Met Service and the Royal Academy of Sciences because they are not funded by lobbies or companies with a stake in this. Their position has been the same through governments from left and right, and they have access to some of the best scientists in the world.
But they are funded via government which is run by non scientists who have an inherent interest in the power that taxation gives them.
I really struggle with watching people not only rejecting, the views of people like the American Society of Meterologists, but actually ridiculing them as not undertanding meterology. That makes no sense to me.
It makes no sense to you because you are not educated. It makes no sense to you because you don't grasp the science. I do grasp the science and your faith in government and inability to look at the vast amount of money and power at stake and conceed that when that amount of money and power is in the balance, some people will willingly do or say whatever is necessary to get a piece of the action makes no sense to me.