AdamT
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No, mi amigo...YOU are duped
If you look carefully at the cult that has sprung up around the theory that humans are responsible for the problem and need to take whatever immediate steps to they can to reduce their impact on the Earth's environment, you will find that most of the legitimate researchers disagree on quite a few of the subtleties around how we got to the current state and how we get out of it. They all tend to stand united because the hidden agenda here is that they want to change human society in such a way that it is, for lack of any better term, "more green", and they feel that goal is so important that any means are justified to attain it. Another problem arises when you start talking about the academic research grants and the intricate house of cards that business represents. When you combine those two factors you will find that the folks involved will quite readily design research and experimentation to favor whichever direction the political wind is blowing. Most of the academics will quite conveniently find evidence to support their socio-political beliefs, in this case that America and the SUV should be done away with. If someone with validating credentials speaks out against the popular theory about global warming they are attacked, reassigned, marginalized, their grant money dries up and after a while they end up losing their job.
That is simply not true. There is vast agreement on the broad principles of AGW theory. This is all minutely documented in the multiple IPCC reports which represent the single largest organized review of scientific literature on any topic in the history of mankind.