Global warming?

[bouzane]

Timmah! said:

bouzane said:
I love it how average Joe's argue about global warming as if they are informed on the topic. Almost the entire scientific community is united in its opinion that humankind is contributing to global warming and that we need to do something about it. It's strange that despite the backing of the world's greatest minds some people think global warming is merely a theory and that their opinion is somehow valid.

Wow, you seem really informed. You obviously don't even know what a theory is. There are plenty of brilliant minds on BOTH sides of the debate. You offered absolutely no intelligent addition to this discussion with that post.

 

Sorry but people can not have informed opinions on such things as climate change. We do not have the thousands of pages of data available to us that the scientific community does and reading the odd article online or watching a story on TV about climate change will never constitute being informed. Regardless, the scientific community seems to be almost unanimous in its belief that humankind is changing the planet's climate and the small amount of remaining opposition to the theory seems to be disappearing. If this were not the case then the UN would not be presented with documents with an increasingly clear message that we are the source of the problem. The data provided against the theory of human driven climate change is typically not peer reviewed making it invalid as scientific research and yet it helps to fuel debate despite being nothing more then conjecture. For your comment that I do not even know what the theory of global warming/climate change is, that was ignorant on your part. My opinion that Internet debate is futile and that the average person's opinion is worthless compared to that of this world's scientists does not mean that I have no understanding of the theory.