[harasseddad]

The problem for "skeptics" is that not one has ever come up with an answer to the question "where's the extra heat going?".

We know that covalent molecules with bond angles between 22 and 35 degrees absorb infrared radiation. We know that CO2 has such a bond angle. We know that the concentration of CO2 has increased from roughly 280 to 380 in the last century, and we can calculate therefore the extra heat that has been absorbed by the atmosphere - all that's simple O level physics, chemistry and maths.

So in order to argue that the increase in CO2 is NOT going to affect climate a skeptic has to be able to advance some sort of plausible hypothesis as to where the extra heat is going - we know it isn't being radiated into space because we have satelites directly measuring that. No one has ever come up with any sort of mechanism or process that could make that heat disappear.

And in the absence of any such explanation I can not see how anyone can be a skeptic - after all even the flat earth people have an "explanation" for pictures showing a round earth, while skeptics appear to have collectively opted to put their fingers in the ears and hum whenever the basic science is discussed.