Originally Posted by Kasserine06

I used to believe global warming was a serious problem, but over time, I became more skeptical mainly because of conflicting atmospheric models. The science isn’t settled and it will take some time for the scientific community to gain the public’s trust back. That does not mean that I now believe global warming is a massive conspiracy evil scientists are promoting so they can get more grant money. Conspiracy theories and accusations without evidence will only muddy the water even more as well basing conclusions on what you feel/believe is really happening. Climatology is a complex science that we really haven’t mastered.

Although CO2 is only a trace element, in chemistry, many times small changes lead to large results. Some closed system studies show that minuscule changes in CO2 produce very large changes in temperature. The problem comes when the experiments are scaled up to represent realistic atmospheric conditions. Some say it is because CO2 has little affect on temperature, and some say they have not been able to model the atmosphere accurately and therefore the affect CO2 has is still unknown.

The point is, there is a lot of conflicting evidence and there really isn’t enough evidence to jump to one side of the debate and claim it is right. The worst thing to do now is to make drastic changes such as putting barriers in our economy so that we switch over to carbon neutral energy and we shouldn’t act like humans have no impact on the environment and follow China in coal plant construction. So let’s keep looking for more studies and reports.