I must emphasize a few key-points by Zenaan on the "global warming"
   fairy tale:
   Well, this one was brought by Jim

     I don't see how there can be "scientific consensus" unless there are
     accurate computer models which show how up climate temperature
     increases as a product of addition of CO2 to the atmosphere.  Both
     qualitatively and quantitatively.
     From Lord Kelvin:
     “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
     numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in
     numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it
     may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your
     thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”

   Zenaan

     Vehemently claiming "theory" is not theory and is actually "fact"
     does not make said theory, facts.

   !!!

     Yes we are impacting the environment (pollution), yes we are pumping
     various gases into the atmosphere, no we cannot be certain of
     anthropogenic global warming OVER AND ABOVE 'natural' causes (the
     sun
     cycles, natural/ cyclical changes in the earth, more?)

   !!!

     Could it be that those challenging a dearly held assertion ***(here
     it's the global "warming" assertion, yesterday it was the moon
     fairy-tale and the Tor fairness assertions, you know), do so not
     from any contrariness, not from any obtuse stubbornness nor even
     belligerance, but from a heartfelt desire to seek 'the truth' and to
     discover the true facts behind an assertion made by another?

   !!!

     Is there any possibility that our personal programming be our
     Western
     schooling system is so ingrained, so deep, that parts of it are
     simply
     unseen by our not so humble selves?

   !!!

     And could it be that such deep programming is in fact used by
     wealthy
     oligarchs around the world who meet behind closed doors to discuss
     and
     execute intentions to spin certain stories based on "the glory,
     power
     and untouchable truth of 'science'" to their personal and
     group/corporate economic benefit?

   !!!