Quote:Because it's not the same damn science. Accurately predicting local weather two weeks from now and predicting large scale climatalogical change over years is apples and oranges, and anybody who knows diddle-squat about either subject could tell you that.
Why should I trust a forecast to the tune of billions of dollars set 30 years in the future, when it can't predict the next 7 days accurately enough to guide me in a several thousand dollar investment?
This is why people go to school for years to become scientists - so they will know of what they speak.
Your disbelieving of the opinion held by the vast majority of all qualified researchers isn't really telling, because you do not know of what you speak. That you do not understand how a consensus forms, or what it means, is similarly not of much concern.
To put it bluntly, when you can find a major, reputable, non-obviously-biased group of scientists who work in the field they're talking about that oppose global warming, I will give it due attention. But you are a Guy On The Internet, which gives you as much credibility on the topic as it does on the subject of how to build a functional moon rocket. Who would listen to you if you started saying you knew better on how to fly to the moon than NASA scientists?
Real scientists can do real research to show flaws in prevailing orthodoxy, which is the difference between the scientific method and you saying that because we can't be sure if it'll rain next week, we also can't be sure if man is causing global climate change.