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by ivalm 2365 days ago
> Al Gore's 2006 documentary

He is not a scientist. The entire discussion was about scientists engaging in group think.

Regarding skeptics to degrees

1. There are no credible skeptics in the community regarding the observation that climate has warmed in the past 100 years

2. There are nearly no credible skeptics in the community regarding the rather simple deduction that humans caused a non-trivial portion of the warming in the past 100 years

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Yes. "No true Scotsman" believes such things. My point stands, that the accuracy of the models is debatable, and the extreme scenarios that are used to inform policy are quite possibly exaggerated by an order of magnitude, by influence of powerful non-scientist entities.