By that logic, cancer is a myth. Do you have any idea how many careers hinge on trying to cure cancer? It's a scientific conspiracy! They have to keep the cancer gravy train going.
The evidence that cancer exists is pretty conclusive. The evidence that the climate is changing in an unusual way isn't.
I live in England, wet, dark miserable England - yet in Roman times there were vineyards and olive trees here. Are you going to tell me next that the bad old Roman Empire was emitting clouds of toxic waste?
"The evidence that cancer exists is pretty conclusive. The evidence that the climate is changing in an unusual way isn't."
I don't agree with that statement, but it's a valid argument for a climate skeptic. "The scientists are just trying to keep the gravy train going" is not a valid argument, because it applies equally to all heavily researched areas. So please, don't use that specific argument again, and understand why it is incorrect.
Any debate on England and Rome is entirely beside the point.
Scientists are not a single homogenous group. If a tenured meteorologist says the climate is changing, then we should listen. If someone tacked "effects of global warming on..." to their study on "the mating habits of water voles", something that would not otherwise have been funded, then we should be skeptical if that person's name later shows up as one of the scientists supporting the global warming theory.
Channel 4 did a documentary on this phenomenon not long ago.
