There is alot of money to be lost as well, perhaps you should think which side is vested in truth and which is invested in money. I would agree with you if the whole world didn't have a consensus, only in the US is this even a debate dude, it's all political.
I don't think we are guessing we use things like ice cores, fossils and rock to go back a million years to measure atmosphere, it's not a guess like you are making it sound, it's objective verifiable data that is still used with great accuracy.
you are attacking the idea not the science, I have no vested interest in this expect truth, the facts are there.
Its a guess dude. Its a scientific, educated guess, but its still a guess. They dont have hard data, thats the only way they could try and model the data to get close, so thays what they did. But in the end, its still a guess.
And im sorry, just because there is a concensus doesnt mean shit to me. It really doesnt mean anything, look at how many things weve had a 'scientific concensus' on throughout history, and then look how many times weve found that to be wrong down the road.
Same thing throughout history. Scientists of the era scream 'this is how it is, this is what the data tells us, it has to be this, theres no other option'. Fast forward 10, 20, 50 years, and whoops, uh oh, new data comes out and shows just how wrong that concensus was.
Thats why its a theory, its not a scientific fact yet, because theyre constantly having to reevaluate things as new data becomes available.
Trying to pass it off as fact instead of theory is just as irresponsible as completely writing it off as impossible IMO.
Im sure that everything we do contributes to the changes in our atmosphere, but i really am not convinced that its so far outside of the earths norms that we need to panic... frankly because we really have no solid idea what the range of 'earth normal' is.