Like Bert, I do hope for some rigor in scientific enquiry.
I also hope that we humans can clean up our act, reduce pollution, and leave a few natural resources for our kids and grandkids.
The scientific questions
- is global warming occurring?
- is there a significant proportion of this warming due to human activity?
- are there methods whereby we may reduce our impact?
to my mind are not answered at all well as yet. The models are not good. They don't offer predictive ability - the acid test of scientific worthiness. This may change (and I hope it does).
But I think that - regardless of the truth or falsity of anthropogenic global warming - we should still clean up our act. That's based on my personal philosophy, not science.
The strange thing for me is that I see many of the global warming adherents behaving like religious people rather than scientific people. That is not a good look, and only weakens their arguments in my view.
For those who are interested,
http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming/
spells out the religion better than I can.
Regards
Tony Barry