Do You Have Faith in Global Warming? A True Believer?

Global warming is a scientific fact. What you believe is *causing* global warming is a matter of faith. This includes all the people who refuse to believe it could be a man-made phenonemon.

WR

I agree that if you merely believe in the general consensus of global warning because of an authority figure, that it is like many people's religious beliefs. If you believe on the basis of evidence though (and there is abundant evidence) then that doesn't fit. So the question is, are the vast, vast majority of scientists writing on global warming doing science or "religion." I think it fairly unarguable that they all have strong reasons for their belief based upon the science.

Heavens I was a global warming skeptic for many years, but most of the questions I had were answered years ago. I think it a fact and that the idea that much of it is human related is also a fact.

Clark Goble [clark@lextek.com]

I should clarify: the "global warming" I refer to as a belief system is not merely the idea that there has been some upward drift in temperature in recent decades (sure, there may be a half-degree increase in the past century), but rather the idea that human industrial activity (greenhouse gas emission) has caused and will continue to cause the earth's temperature to increase, and that this is a problem that demands action. This is an area where plenty of skepticism can be intelligently maintained, especially since the bulk of the half-degree temperature jump appears to have occurred decades before the bulk of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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