ZenMode
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Agreed. Scientists aren't gods. But, by the same token, people who lack any real scientific background don't get to impose their "opinion" on science they don't understand on the rest of us.
As you noted we know the basics of this and have (actually since the mid 1900's....some even earlier than that!) known for a long time. The fact we are still dragging our feet means we've ceded far too much decision-making power to those who lack the requisite education to understand the seriousness of the topic.
The longer we sit here trying to explain basic science to non-scientists the harder the decisions we'll be forced to make will be.
I actually misspoke. It's the late 1800s. A swedish scientist wrote a paper on the impact of carbon dioxide on the Earth in 1896.