>At some level I know that neither of these responses can be fully trusted, and yet I can't shake the feeling that one can be trusted and the other cannot. How

>At some level I know that neither of these responses can be fully trusted, and yet I can't shake the feeling that one can be trusted and the other cannot. How can this be? David Appell said it himself that what he believes isn't based in fact and can't be disproven in any way, in other words, a religious belief. Seems you just prefer science to religion. "In climate science you can’t “predict” anything — climate models aren’t capable of predicting, because no one can read the future."