If only you could click on the link and read it!
"Currently, there is a strong scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities. This consensus is supported by various studies of scientists' opinions and by position statements of scientific organizations, many of which explicitly agree with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesis reports."
And your mental gymnastics to try to weasel out of that shall be?
No gymnastics mental or otherwise needed.
"Currently, there is a strong scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities."
Notice, that the primary statement says nothing beyond what I said!
Earth has warmed in the last century, and that Human activity is likely involved!
Neither imply any agreement to the catastrophic predictions, but let's look at the numbers.
Most data sets agree that the average temperatures have increased by about .9 C since the 1800's
If the CO2 forcing numbers are to be believed, and doubling the CO2 level will result in 3.71 Wm-2 of energy imbalance,
then based on the American Chemical Society formulas, then
(5.35 X ln(410/280) X .3)=.61 C is from CO2 forcing, hence a majority of the observed warming.
But this means that if we actually double the CO2 level, it would add about 1.1 C of average warming only.
So agreement to your own cited consensus statement, does not require agreement with the catastrophic predictions!
