Crick asked that we look up the WG1 AR5 from the IPCC. He said my questions about the science would be answered. I did. Here are some observations:
1. The IPCC is mostly made up of politicians and some professors, not the underlying scientists;
2. The AR5 is nothing more than summaries and assumptions of all underlying work with words like "High confidence", "likely", etc. So it is meaningless without the underlying studies.
3. It is impossible to absorb correctly because it is literally chocked full references and graphs, each one a class study in itself.
4. When trying to drill down on one assumption, "level of man made CO2", you realize that these issues are so complicated that these people do not have a clue. For instance, man made CO2 in US is taken, in part, from fossil fuel production. Then you realize that their "confidence" in knowing levels of other nations (China, India, etc.) is VERY LOW. Well that is just the rest of the world. Their numbers are bogus. Especially in view of assumptions based on point 4 degrees in 20 years, I would put this in the range of "low confidence".
5. Their solution is cap and trade. Therefore, the UN would tax all countries, making itself an uber country taxing authority. That means, these people are NOT third party disinterested observers. They are asking us to make them taxing over lords.
Makes you want to go over their assumptions one more time.
