Wow, great response. I'm afraid I'm not qualified to really respond in depth. I'm more on the pop-science side of this issue. For example I've heard Al Gore spe

Wow, great response. I'm afraid I'm not qualified to really respond in depth. I'm more on the pop-science side of this issue. For example I've heard Al Gore speak in person about it in ~2004 (Overall, best powerpoint presentation I've ever seen), but I don't read any journals on the subject. However, I do think I represent a sizable portion of the population. I'm open to being wrong, but innately skeptical about the depth of our understanding of something this complex. If this was like most other science, then who cares what a lay person like myself thinks? No astrophysicist need worry what I think about black holes. However, climate scientists want don't want to just change their own fossil fuel use. They want to change the fossil fuel usage of the entire developed / developing world. If the goal is changing the behavior of many humans, folks in the field need to start convincing many people.