re: #885 hopperandadropper

I’m not a ‘true believer’ - I go by the facts and evidence. It was through looking at the claims of both sides that I arrived at my current position.

Fred Singer also denies the link between CFC’s and ozone depletion, and the link between second hand smoke and lung cancer. A real sage - clearly we should discount the views of the legions of climate scientists who disagree with him on CO2./

Yes there are cycles of warming and cooling and solar activity does correlate well with large parts of the climate history, but these factors don’t explain the changes we have measured over the last few decades. Regardiing solar output over the last few decades, it seems that the anti-AGW argument is based on conviction, and pays little attention to the known data: ‘It MUST be the sun - we don’t know how, we have no evidence to that effect in terms of observations, and the observations we do have strongly suggest otherwise, but it MUST be, all the same’.