What made me and keeps me not a denier of AGW but a pretty strong skeptic of the so-called 'mainstream scientific opinion' about that is:
NO. ONE: Despite trillions of dollars poured into green energy project around the world, restrictions on our vehicles and appliances, prohibition of various activities that were once commonplace, attempted eradication of cows/beef products etc., etc., etc., the CO2 in the atmosphere seems to have not been changed/improved by a single particle. This calls into questions whether government controls and restrictions on our choices/opportunities/liberties can be justified.
NO. TWO: The climate scientists and their advocates are not living their own lives as if AGW/climate change is a problem. They still private jet all over the world to get together instead of videoconferencing which would seem to be the 'ethical' thing to do. They buy water front homes and enjoy other lifestyles that call into question their personal convictions that we have a serious climate problem.
NO. THREE: The IPCC Summary for Policy Makers is not written by scientists but is written by political operatives who never recommend any course of action other than more government control over the people.
NO. FOUR: Going back to one of my old threads, even if we concede adding more than seven billion people to Planet Earth might actually affect global warming to some extent, there are more reasonable and practical ways to address that than impoverishing most of the human race. Link to that thread is here:
Paraphrased from my source for this thread: more than a million people are killed and multi millions injured in traffic accidents every year that goes by. We could reduce that carnage to near zero if we just reduced traffic speeds to 3 miles an hour. Anybody willing to agree to that to save all those lives? I think 99.9% of people world wide would think that an unreasonable remedy for the problem.
So let's look at unreasonable 'remedies' for the climate change problem.
I have long argued that whether human activity is the driving force behind climate change or not, human kind is here...