I need to get in gear after taking a too-long nap and go get my lottery tickets...plus I spent far too much time reading an article on Vox about how climate models have been correct since the 70's:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/12/4/20991315/climate-change-prediction-models-accurate

My problem with each and every new "reaffirmation" of climate change is that it does not allow for any type of rebuttal, even from other scientists who dispute the data or at least the interpretation of it.

I wasted even more time following a link to "Skeptical Science" which is anything BUT skeptical of those climate models and "consensus". I spent some time reading about Antarctic sea ice and comments were making the argument with NASA and other organization's own data that show it to be increasing, along with snowfall, but they glibly countered that with it being an outlier. (and that it was only increasing in certain areas and was decreasing in others)

It's like "An Inconvenient Truth" - full of graphs and statistics hard to argue with....because they come from "experts" and only give one side. All that is enough to make one concede there IS man made climate change, if for nothing else than the mass of overwhelming data, true or not. Add the weeping violins when footage of polar bears "stranded" on an ice floe - never mind their numbers are actually increasing, according to OTHER experts...or the ominous organ notes when a clip of smoke stacks belching out clouds of toxic greenhouse emissions are shown - never mind that footage has been darkened and the stacks are spewing out nothing but steam.

I could rant on for a thousand more words, but will spare you; I will end with something I'm wondering about: if these climate "emergency" meetings are really such an emergency, then why are all the attendees pumping tons more co2 into the air by flying to (and from) them and not doing the much more ecological friendly method of e-conferences (like Skype)?

Thanks Mike. I always thought science was an ever evolving field changing with each new discovery, scientists checking the validity of one another's work. There is new data stating the sun and its cycles over time have a greater impact on our climate changes than had been considered. It is after all the source of heat for our particular solar system. I've truly never been able to fathom how earth's climate is having an effect on temps on other planets. Guess not enough brain cells to put that one together. Derp me.