Sunspot Minimum or "Is the sun going to sleep?"

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by Artdutra04

As such, what qualifies me as being more competent than they are at drawing conclusions from their climate data? Subjective arguments and logical fallacies? I'm not a climate scientist, or even a meteorologist. But they are. And the vast majority of them (including the IPCC) all agree that global warming is not only real and observable, but that activity from humans has been primarily responsible for this current rapid upswing. (Note they are not stating that humans are solely responsible, since climate shifts obviously occurred in the four billion years prior to humanity.)

Three points:

1.) I don't understand what is wrong with drawing your own conclusions from the data. The scientists studying global warming don't know everything about it (or why would they still need to be researching it) so what makes you so sure that your conclusions would be incorrect?

2.) Just because their is a consensus among the scientific community doesn't necessarily mean that that consensus is correct. Bear in mind that it was once generally accepted that the world was flat and orbited by the sun.

3.) I would love to read some papers on climate change. If anyone would be willing to post some links it would be much appreciated.

2 more cents from me.