@Setanta,
The point with climate change is that we have a scientific consensus (as noted by the AAAS) that human induced climate change is happening, has been measured, and presents a real danger that suggests immediate action.
I will post AAAS statement again. My stance is exactly the same as theirs.
Quote:The overwhelming evidence of human-caused climate change documents both current impacts with significant costs and extraordinary future risks to society and natural systems. The scientific community has convened conferences, published reports, spoken out at forums and proclaimed, through statements by virtually every national scientific academy and relevant major scientific organization — including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — that climate change puts the well-being of people of all nations at risk.
Do you note they use words "overwhelming evidence"?
This has nothing to do with the luminiferous aether. The story are relating is actually an example of science working the way it should work. People made an assumption that made sense to everyone. They did an experiment to test that assumption. The experiment failed to detect it. They questioned the experiment and ran it again. It failed again. They came up with an alternative explanation. They tested it. That failed too. They came up with another explanation. They tested it. It succeeded. The new theory was accepted.
There is no where in history that I saw anyone saying that there was "overwhelming evidence" supporing liminiferous aether. I would love to see a link if you are saying they did. It was an assumption, and an incorrect one. But everyone knew that something wasn't working which is why they did Michelson-Morley in the first place (the problem with the current theory was actually suggested with interference in water well before Michelson-Morley). There was never overwhelming evidence in favor of the luminiferous aether. They were looking for it, Michelson-Morley would have given it, but they never found it.
Scientists today are saying that there is "Overwhelming evidence" that human induced climate change presents a real risk... This isn't just a theoretical framework, it is something that is being measured by people who have put up satellites to measure it.
People who are trying to "debunk" climate change use stories like this to cast doubt on the ability of scientists to reach any level of certainty. It is a bogus argument.