This is one of those “depends on which position you’re actually arguing” things, and everyone always strawmans.
Like, is the earth getting warmer? That seems pretty conclusive.
Does CO2 make earth warmer, all else being equal? Seems pretty conclusive.
Are humans putting enough CO2 into the atmosphere to have a measurable impact on climate? Yeah probably.
Do we know enough about the complex feedback in the atmosphere to accurately model exactly how much warming will happen how fast for a given amount of CO2? That seems to have a much less good track record (that is, seems like models have been pretty consistently overpredicting, and anyway the best models are not the ones showing catastrophic outcomes).
Can we confidently claim that “we have 5 years to change or climate change will cause human extinction”? Well now you’re totally off the rails.
This is one of those “depends on which position you’re actually arguing” things, and everyone always strawmans.
Like, is the earth getting warmer? That seems pretty conclusive.
Does CO2 make earth warmer, all else being equal? Seems pretty conclusive.
Are humans putting enough CO2 into the atmosphere to have a measurable impact on climate? Yeah probably.
Do we know enough about the complex feedback in the atmosphere to accurately model exactly how much warming will happen how fast for a given amount of CO2? That seems to have a much less good track record (that is, seems like models have been pretty consistently overpredicting, and anyway the best models are not the ones showing catastrophic outcomes).
Can we confidently claim that “we have 5 years to change or climate change will cause human extinction”? Well now you’re totally off the rails.