But the earth isn't warming. The temps have been falling for the last 5 years or so. And except for a single uptick in 2003 (give or take), it's been falling since 2000.I believe the earth IS warming, but I also realize that neither of us, in fact probably none of us on this forum truly have the knowledge to do more than form our belief based on what others tell us. And most of us (myself included) also probably don't realize the extent to which that belief we form is based on what we wished to believe in the first place.
My assertion is that we might as well have a political argument about severe solar flares as global warming (or any other real or imagined human-caused catastrophe) because we are equally helpless to avoid or prevent either of them. The very nature of the debate, I find, is proof of this.