Whilst I may not be the emeritus professor of atmospheric science from Cambridge University, I'm a science graduate (from back before everyone had degrees) and used to teach science. The scientific method bit is utterly critical to the whole process. People even thinking about commenting about a science subject would do very well to read, learn and understand scientific method. Sadly, there is too much subject matter of phys/chem/bio and not enough critical thinking or scientific method in the brains of those who have been through school in the last 50 years.
Specialists and scientific professionals would do well to refresh themselves of this method and remember, opinion, politics, desired outcome, consensus and bias, as well as sloppy statistics, data "cherry picking" and drawing conclusions out of wholly inadequate models is NOT scientific and has no place in science.
I'm not going to comment on what I think, because it's quite clear that Climate Change, or whatever it's calling itself now is integral with politics and big business and even the best players in the game have been guilty of not being very scientific. I have read about the East Anglia Climate Research Unit and the disgusting frauds and bias undertaken there. I'm aware of Mann's hockey stick, I'm aware of the scale of things including geological time and the "evidence" we have is utterly utterly poor. I have also worked alongside ex-scientific staff of the UN IPCC and know a couple of other "climate change professionals" and I must say on all counts, they would be well placed reviewing their scientific method. However, religion and politics have warped their methods. Usually lots of yoghurt weaver socialism, or religious socialism.
Whether or not humans are causing global wombling, (it appears CO2 concentrations FOLLOW global temps, according to my chum Bernie, who is a clear thinking scientist working on the matter....at Cambridge - Not to appeal to authority....that's also unscientific), it would appear very much that humans are fucking the planet up and the best idea is to have a big cull. But, the planet has time (within the projected solar cycle) to evolve everything from scratch again, so let's forget our self-important nonsense, our Allau Ackbars, our greenie hand wringing vegetarian self flagellating hair shirt freaks and just live well, enjoy ourselves and go and do some big 11's at the traffic lights in a massive V8 car spewing out epic amounts of plant food gas.
We will all be dead soon, continents will move around and eventually the swelling sun will obliterate every trace of human life.
My model is to live well, enjoy myself, be decent to each other, watch a lot of porn, surf lots, go down lots of holes and drink a fair bit of beer.
Cheers. DFC.