Not really, I find foolishness quite irritating. But it is quite interesting to think about how it comes into being.It's good fun isn't it ?
Maybe you should pop along to the COP26 conference and tell them why they are so wrong? They'd be really pleased if your evidence stood up and they could all go home and stop worrying
No it wasn't.
I quite enjoy the 'devil's advocate' approach, Tn - in fact, I think it's important for us all to consider alternative accounts. What bothers me is when people latch on to an alternative account of things and bark on about it endlessly as if they've somehow - without having any expertise in the field - divined the truth. I see governments and businesses etc conspire to shape our consciousness and behaviour all the time, and they are enormously successful in that. It's not so tricky to observe how those conspiracies have developed historically if you study them. But that doesn't mean, for example, that the UN IPCC experts who have been sharing their findings are working on behalf of governments to deceive us. Of course, they might be but to convince me of that, you'd need an awful lot of evidence, and certainly not a general statement about govts lying. Not seen the Pink Floyd vid since I was a teenager, made sense then - to a teenage mind.Mother, should I trust the government?
If only government were honest in their dealings with the people, "experts" could and would be trusted. However all governments lie, about nearly everything. How on earth do you go through life, on the one hand freely accepting that government lies, and on the other accepting expert government opinion as truth? Or do you genuinely believe your government in all things?
I think thats one of the most weird and improbable sceptic notions - that almost the whole of the scientific community worldwide including university research departments, meteorologists, highly skilled experts in various fields, should set about making the whole thing up, falsifying evidence, as a money making scam.No they wouldn't, they'd lose their income.
Yes and no. You could find out about it if you could be bothered
Guess what - it's crossed their minds too! Volcanoes and Climate Change | Earthdata
No, they do masses of research and produce masses of evidence.
I would say that they produce theoretical evidence which then has to stand up to scrutiny and undergo extensive testing before being accepted as being true based on current knowledge
They certainly do. Though "testing" isn't quite the word - you can't test a forecast, except by waiting to see how it turns out. So far they are turning out as forecast but rather quicker than anticipated..
It's not just volcanoes - the 'Clean Air Act' also has its part to play. Less air pollution = lighter clouds = more sunlight getting through !
