@1 Lol yeah what kind of idiot cares about things. I like to lie in my bed and cry all day instead.

So does the Bible count as scientific proof?

fish in a barrel, paul. fish in a barrel. I bet you can't wait for the presidential race to start so you have something to write about.

@4
Sheesh. No one is talking about fish. Or guns for that matter.
Don't derail the subject, which happens to be a very important one.

Plus, proving a negative is not easy.

A scientist who is "fed up" by critics isn't being a scientist. Such exasperation is in the politics, not in the science. We can prove things in math, chemistry, physics, but what sense is it to prove things in climatology, geology, biology, astronomy, and such disciplines given the underlying forces and other circumstances are far outside the control, or even understanding, of humans?

@6 You got this part right "A scientist who is "fed up" by critics isn't being a scientist. Such exasperation is in the politics, not in the science."

As for the rest of what you wrote. http://i.minus.com/inTOB7in4hmtZ.gif

@6- typical do-nothingism from a conservative troll. "You can't do anything about it" is the campaign slogan of the Defeatist Party, formerly known as the GOP. School shootings? Just the way it is, 2nd amendment, blah, blah. Healthcare reform? Things aren't that bad, why bother, blah, blah. Energy independence? Won't work, why bother, blah, blah. For every issue the Defeatist Party has the same answer; "You can't do anything about it."
Although your lot has all kinds of action plans for NONissues, like Benghazi ® and suing the president over somethingorothernotsurewhat.
You semi-literate knuckle draggers can't read above a 3rd grade level, so everything is beyond you're understanding, hence you think it's futile to try to act. You despise and refute all knowledge out of spite to make yourselves feel more secure about your ignorance.
Not that you can understand a word of what I just wrote.
Too many big words.

@ 6, just because something is outside YOUR understanding doesn't mean it's outside human understanding.

Besides, offering prizes for scientific achievement is a part of it. Ever hear of the Nobel Awards?

@9: The lady doth protest too much, methinks

@11: It's a valid criticism, but every serious plan to reduce carbon emissions had relied on developed countries to lead the way in switching to renewables so that developing countries can build up their infrastructure further without needing to be so stringent about energy policy. They'll be polluting comparatively a lot until they become properly developed, so those of us who are already there need to trim more to make up for it.

"Properly developed"

Ooh, I shudder. It's like a compassionate Nazi.

@5: paul's been floundering looking for a slog topic, and he's settled on glenn beck's idiot minions. what they think about climate change is as interesting or important as ann coulter's mewlings.

@12 http://i.minus.com/inTOB7in4hmtZ.gif

Christ man have some self respect your smarter then what your spewing in this thread.

@6: "We can prove things in math, chemistry, physics"

Indeed yes.

"but ... [in] climatology ... the underlying forces ... are far outside the ... understanding, of humans"

Climatological modeling and predictions are entirely based on math, chemistry, and physics. So much for your understanding of science. All the models predict significant climate change. While there is some disagreement over whether the change will be catastrophic or merely devastating, the entire spectrum of predictions is dire.

While I don't mind that I probably won't live to see the worst come to pass, I do regret I won't be able to tell you, "I told you so."

@11, fluorescent and LED produce plenty of lumens at 20 watts. Because light is measured in lumens, not watts. Marketing bulbs by watts is as obsolete as the incandescent technology they purported to measure.

There's a difference between critics within and outside the science community. Scientists welcome reasoned critiques and studies. However the constant harping of armchair morons gets a bit old.

I'm surprised we haven't gotten: "If Dolphins are so smart, how come the live in igloos?"

@17: Models are not proof, they are only tools.

@6 False. The concept of proof exists in math only. But, it apparently only took more than a decade of conservative bleating for conclusive proof of anthropogenic climate change for you to acknowledge that no such proof will be forthcoming because it isn't the way science works.

@21:

And you know so much about tools, don't you - seeing as you're one of the biggest tools in the box.

Ba-dump!

Thank you! We'll be here all weekend! Enjoy the buffet and don't forget to tip your waiter!

The Bible is scientific proof that Jesus was married and had kids and then bunches of people wrote stuff "about" him that suited their agendas at the time, most of which was tossed out when Rome took over and sanitized it for pro-slavery reasons.

Oh, you didn't want to know that?

My bad.

Geoengineering chemtrails. ...Wow.

@6: Way to completely validate his exercise with your assertions.