See the following: 400 Scientists doubt climate change.
100 Scientists appeal to the UN to not fight global warming.
List of 100 scientists, their degree and expertise.
You sound like a really nice guy but not up to the task on this issue.
"A high school dropout, ABD in streetlife, I've been self employed since my early twenties. Previous to my current business I made my living as an electron cop (I owned a company which specialized in specing and installing data comm products for large corporations). In "retierment" I started a Home Inspection business, I also purchase and rehab residential and investment properties. Like many self-educated people my opinions are rooted in wide and eclectic reading, filtered through a basically anecdotal approach to understanding life, and bobby-trapped with various surprising gaps in my knowledge.
1) The worst-case estimates of the environmental and economic effects of AGW are overstated. Almost certainty correct, but the likely results of mid-range perditions are still alarming.
2) There has been warming, but it’s due to some other case (ex: solar flux).
The problem with this theory is that it fails to account for the warming we should be seeing due to greenhouse emissions.
It would be easy for proponents of this view to get the attention of main-stream climate theorists, all they would have to do is either 1) demonstrate that the well understood atmospheric chemistry that predicts AGW as result of “greenhouse gases” is incorrect, and/or 2) demonstrate some countervailing effect that is preventing warming from occurring despite the greenhouse effect.
To date the skeptics has not been able to do either, and by this point it’s highly unlikely that either the atmospheric chemistry and physics is incorrect or such countervailing mechanisms remain undiscovered.