Who do you believe?

Perhaps it's the overly conservative demographic of the Peninsula area but I find it truly hard to believe some of the comments regarding global warming and the part that carbon dioxide plays in it.

The greenhouse effect has been taught in our schools for many, many years and no one seems to dispute this, yet people dispute that excessive carbon dioxide is the cause.

But who is disputing it?

It's not the overwhelming majority of scientists but the common person in the street.

If you were a heavy smoker and you went to 100 doctors who told you to quit smoking because it's killing you and then you went to one doctor, funded by the tobacco industry, who told you it's not cigarettes that have given you lung cancer, who do you believe?

For some reason everyone thinks they know better than the people who study these issues their whole lives.

The science is settled.

There is absolute overwhelming proof, so climate skeptics get over it.

Email, 28 Mar 2011 Ross Cochrane, Woy Woy