Taking people's word for things is also not Science. If all we ever did was rely on our faith in people's words, we wouldn't have discovered anything with Science. The very admission you are willing to take someone's word for something means you're not practicing science, you're practicing a faith.
The Sun causes our planet to warm. That's pretty ******* basic. What causes the Earth to retain heat? The greenhouse effect. If not for the greenhouse effect, there would be no life on Earth. Part of what makes the greenhouse effect work is the presence of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide comes from all kinds of sources, it happens when oxygen binds with carbon. On Earth, this is done through several natural processes and there are natural processes which use some of the carbon dioxide.... like plants. Humans burn fossil fuels which are carbon based. As a result, carbon dioxide is created. So yes... humans do contribute to the carbon dioxide which amplifies the greenhouse effect to some degree, which could cause more warming. However, there is absolutely NO science which shows that human contributions are a primary source for any warming of significance.
In addition, there is no governmental solution to this. Taxing a corporation for their producing carbon is not going to change the dynamics of what is happening in the atmosphere. All it does is punish capitalists for a problem that can't be solved because there really isn't a problem. If you are 100% correct in all of this... the only chance we have is to abandon all industrialization and return to living like pioneer days or cave men. And even then, we have to hope that lessening our impact is enough to change what's already happening. We can't do a thing about nature producing carbon dioxide through thermal vents and volcanoes. Maybe if there were some solution that didn't involve us all returning to primitive lifestyles it would be different.
Now here's the GOOD news... Mother Earth is going to survive no matter what. You see, we have a very resilient planet that can adapt, adjust and self-correct. It has done this for billions of years and far worse peril to it's climate. If human activity is causing some looming catastrophe, Mother Nature will wipe us out and recover over time.
Of course there is scientific evidence that humans are contributing to global warming. Just because you don't like the parameters, or believe their methods are not 'science' doesn't make it so. One of the biggest critics of it in Merchants of Doubt is Seitz. The same guy who was paid by the tobacco lobby to have 'findings' that tobacco didn't cause hardened arteries or lung cancer.
Of course the sun warms the planet. However as Santer has PROVEN with his fingerprinting, the troposphere is heating up and the stratosphere is cooling. If they were BOTH heating up, that would the sun. With only the troposphere (the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth) heating up, there is one cause. Greenhouse gases, which are natural too (i.e. volcanoes etc), but mainly due to humans.
You know, what I find funny. I lived in NZ for almost 40 years. A massive hole in the ozone layer appeared over the Antarctic every summer. It can bigger and bigger every year until it extended to parts of NZ. Scientists said "Hey guys this is being caused by CFCs from refrigeration units and the like." Of course, refrigeration manufacturers hit the roof, going "BS" and all the rest like you GW deniers are now. However, govts around the world made the manufacturers change the gas in fridges. They stop putting CFCs and HCFCs into the atmosphere and the hole in the ozone layer starts reducing. Gee, what a coincidence - not.
You don't have to abandon industrialisation at all. What you have to have are more environmentally responsible corporations. The world shouldn't need Greenpeace or Erin Brockovich, but corporations can't be trusted period. If Brockovich hadn't done what she did, the water in California wells would still be shit. You also have renewables as an alternative source. This is the one thing I really hate about capitalism. It's all about money, money, money. Make me, my shareholders, my friends rich. That's all that matters. You can be rich and environmentally responsible, too. Too much weight is given to shareholders and the like. So your company makes $100 million instead of $120 million because it had to outlay better filters on its chimney stacks bellowing out shit into the atmosphere. Cry me a river.
if you think you can put 10s of millions of tonnes of shit in the air over a 300 year period and it has no affect on the planet and its ecosystem you're a fool.
