My personal path was when I saw the odious Al Gore choose this as his public issue in the late 1990’s.
My simple logic is - when perhaps the stupidest politician on the planet chooses an issue to sustain his career, you know the whole thing is foul.
I’ve been proven correct ever since.
But, but, but............ algore invented the interweb, he and Tipster were the basis for “Love Story” and he is now a renowned climate scientist. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?
Same with me. And it wasn't just Gore, but other hard leftists and the totally corrupt environmental organizations. When they jumped on board, I knew immediatly that something was fishy about the science. That inspired me to look harder and I found nothing but junk science behind their claims.
Interesting. My "skepticism" started in about 1991. My first question was based on my highschool science education. I had been taught that the earth routinely goes through climatic cycles from hot to cold. There have been ice ages and periods when there was no ice at the poles. When it was suggested that the global temperature might raise by a couple degrees F every 100 years, I remember thinking that seemed reasonable. After all, a few thousand years ago, much of North America was covered in miles of ice. Then the earth warmed apparently. In college I asked someone, "What would the average global temperature be if humans never existed? What is the control for the science.?" This confused my liberal colleague. In all science, there has to be a control from which to measure. What should the temperature of the earth be? I also asked what caused the little ice age and the medieval warming period recently when vikings farmed on Greenland? It seemed the believers had never considered anything that remotely pertained to standard scientific methods and questions. By 1995, I was adamantly calling BS based on the lack of science and calls for consensus. WTF is consensus in science. Science isn't democracy where people lobby a theory for support and make it fact when they think they get 50%.