A Quarrel with the Concept of Man-Induced Climate Change
Popular science and the popular media has for some time now accepted "global warming," aka "climate change" caused by man's activities as a fait accompli. Unlike standard scientific information, this body of work is not open to typical scientific scrutiny (try to find formally published rebuttal). Indeed any critics of this body of work are generally denigrated and impugned by so-called "climate scientists." The purpose of this information presented for discussion is to explore the facts and basic data relevant to climate change and its study and to quarrel with this intransigent theory-made-fact-by-popular-voice. Those with the popular voice would call me a climate skeptic; I call myself a climate realist. For me, man-induced climate change is a catastrophically failed hypothesis. The basic over-arching reference for the summary of the relevant scientific literature has been the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC Reports by a bo...