The World's climate sceptics met recently, but it sounds like it didn't go as well they expected: It seems like one or two of their star speakers got up and said they didn't like the way climate scepticism was going. In particular, they didn't like the way their side of the argument was becoming politicised. More detail here.
Yes, it's all getting a bit out of hand really. Some of the sceptics have perfectly legitimate views but their voices are being lost amongst the political rhetoric and just plain abuse that's spewing forth from most of the others.
It is very rare in science that any question is considered 'proven', you just get a state of 'general agreement amongst the scientific community'. You will therefore always have dissenting voices. This is a good thing, it keeps the other scientists on their toes, it keeps science moving forward.
So those climate scientists with sceptic views deserve to be heard by the rest of their community (which they are). There also needs to be a grown-up public debate free from hecklers shouting 'scam!!', 'hoax!', 'lies', 'nazis' and worse.
Climate change is an extremely serious issue, it's about time we sorted out what we're going to do about it, free from the influence of multi-national companies and their political puppets.
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