Oh stop.
You first.
I'm not a climate scientist and neither is anyone on here (that I know of)[...]
One doesn't need to be a climate scientist to grok the basics of the theory and examine the predictions the theory makes against the facts we're observing. The facts suggest - very strongly - that the climate is warming. That doesn't mean that winters can't be harsh or that they will only get milder, nor does it mean that Alaska will become the next hit tropical destination.
[...] but what I do know is, if it looks bullshit, smells like bullshit, more times than not....its bullshit.
People called bullshit when scientific theories did away with the concept of the luminuferous aether.
People called bullshit when Tesla proposed the brushless electric motor.
People called bullshit when George Zweig proposed quarks.
I could go on, but suffice it to say that people that were a whole lot smarter than you were fooled into thinking something was bullshit.
By the way, physicists keep asking for money to built bigger and bigger atom-smashing machines. Something about finding smaller and smaller particles. Sounds like bullshit too, doesn't it?
It's a money grab.
Perhaps, although it's unclear what motive climate scientists, in aggregate, have to publish bogus research. Are we supposed to believe that they're all of similar political persuasion and playing the long con, so that that, a few years down the line, the zeitgeist of the day will be such as to cause politicians to demand that factories install soot filters, people drive SMART cars, and our homes are powered by love? Really!?
So let's not worry about that. Let's just assume you're right, and this is, indeed, a money grab. Does that, somehow, imply that it is the theory of global warming itself that is incorrect?
We're not going to die of "Global warming" anytime soon unless I overdose on Melatonin and a couple bottles of wine in August in my back yard in Palm Springs.
How do you know we aren't going to die of "Global warming" anytime soon. You just told us you're not a climate scientist, and now you're proceeding to talk about the climate with inimitable certainty.
Look, nobody is saying that tomorrow we'll wake to find the average temperature to be a toasty 110 degrees. But the fact that the climate has been warming is not in dispute.
We can debate what the role, if any, humans play. We can debate whether all or part of the trend we are observing can be accounted for by the natural cycle of the climate. We can debate whether it may be good for us if it the average temperature was a little higher. We can debate whether we should all ride on those stupid electric skateboards. We can even debate whether to install catalysts in cows.
But we cannot debate
facts and the facts are that there has been an observable, statistically significant warming trend in the earth's climate.
