@BillRM,
I am not talking specifically about climate change now...
My question now is that there are some scientific claims you accept. There are others you don't accept.
You are not a scientist, you don't understand the math or read the journals or check the data from the satellites. You probably read a couple of synopsis of the science off the internet that was written by someone with your point of view. Am I wrong about this?
I also am not a scientist (I did earn a Physics degree). I have not read the journals or looked at raw data. What I have done is looked at the synopsis of the science from the scientific community.
The advantage of my strategy is that the synopsis of the science that I am reading comes from the people who are actually getting the education and training, doing the research, writing articles in journals and pouring over raw data.
Getting scientific understand from scientists doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. Getting scientific understand from politicians does.
You do realize that your beliefs on climate change are exactly what one would expect given your political positions on other issues. Don't you see how this could be a problem? In good science, understanding is not impacted by political ideology.