Is denying global warming up there with Flat Earthism?

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Do you think skepticism of global warming at this point is completely irrational? Even though pretty much every scientist not on a payroll believes in global warming, I still find it difficult to believe in. More just because something that scary, I mean mainstream science is pretty much admitting the sky is falling, is hard to accept.

The evidence is pretty extraordinary though. Even though it seems colder today than it was 10 years ago, I guess 50 years ago the world was way colder and snowier than it is now.

...Of course, more experiments will follow. That’s the thing about science. Theories are theories; any scientific theory or hypothesis can always be challenged by new facts.
What’s interesting, of course, is how much more mature physicists seem to be than climatologists. Dissent from a scientific paradigm much more firmly established than anything in climate science isn’t greeted with howls of rage, fury and charges of heresy. Many physicists are skeptical, as well they should be, of evidence that seems contrary to decades of experiment and analysis, but the overwhelming mood seems to be one of curiosity rather than rage. Could these new results possibly be real? What would this mean if it is true? How can we check these results to see how fast these neutrinos are really moving?
This is how real science operates. While I believe that the climate scientists are broadly correct subject to all the usual qualifications (temperatures are rising, the rise is associated with an accelerated production of greenhouse gasses by human activity, and further increases in greenhouse gas levels look likely to promote continued temperature increases and associated climate change), I continue to think that the heresy-hunting, quack remedy promoting climate change movement is part of the problem rather than part of the solution. And challenges to the conclusions of climate science, and questions about computer models and the predictions they generate need to be answered by careful and reasoned debate, not by name calling and ad hominem arguments.
If physicists can control themselves while the most fundamental elements of their worldview are challenged by a handful of researchers with some interesting but quite tricky and potentially flawed results, then the climate world should be able to handle controversy with a little less venom as well. My guess is that the best climate scientists are more interested by the questions critics are asking rather than infuriated by their temerity in doing so. The orthodoxy enforcers and the heresy police tend not to be the finest scientific minds; skepticism and curiosity make for good science, not herd thinking and righteous rage....

Also some people just don't care about the rest of life on this planet.

Its because people know its not a simple question of whether we are causing it or not. It involves too many variables and everyone knows the weather is unpredictable anyway and that we have been through warm/cold periods long before humans turned up.

What really bothers me is that some vile scrotes throw around disgusting slurs like "global warming denier", an obvious distasteful reference to the Shoah. Sick people.

What really bothers me is that some vile scrotes throw around disgusting slurs like "global warming denier", an obvious distasteful reference to the Shoah. Sick people.

The problem we have is that if we do nothing and it is eventually proved that it was caused by our industries and practices and the effects are devestating for the next generations then they will hate our generation on a scale of biblical proportions.

I'll bet the house and the car that it has nothing to do with us. Do you really think Mother Nature gives a toss about us and what we do?

I'll bet the house and the car that it has nothing to do with us. Do you really think Mother Nature gives a toss about us and what we do?

If global warming has nothing to with us then there should be a valid alternative idea for why the global temperature is rising consistently at this moment in time and there doesn't appear to be one.