Only elite scientists, those with a solid record of achievement, are elected to the Royal Society and the (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences. There are some dissenters but, overwhelmingly, members of these two elite scientific bodies agree that it is dangerous to continue pumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The governing bodies of both organisations have called upon governments to take steps to curb CO2 emissions. So the consensus view among climate scientists and among the world's elite scientists generally is that adding CO2 to the atmosphere poses grave dangers.
You are free to dissent from their opinion. That is your right. But here is the challenge.
Bearing in mind that, historically, amateur dissenters from the scientific consensus have been wrong much more often than they've been right and that amateurs who fail to submit their work to peer review are almost never correct when they try to overturn the prevailing paradigm, give me RATIONAL reasons for believing that you are right and most of the world's best scientists are wrong about a SCIENTIFIC issue.
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Steven Meyer graduated as a physicist from the University of Cape Town and has spent most of his life in banking, insurance and utilities, with two stints into academe.