User:William M. Connolley/My POV on climate change

Yes, its the long awaited "what does William think about Climate Change" text. The answer, however, is dull.

I support the IPCC consensus, which includes believing that the IPCC reports accurately summarise the state of climate science (and for those who hate detail, that includes believing that the summaries accurately summarise the reports, insofar as as a shorter thing can ever accurately reflect a larger thing).

Somewhat recently, I've realised that "what is the consensus of scientists" is the wrong question: not only is it hard/impossible to answer, it doesn't really matter. The right question is "what is the consensus of the science" - which is to say, whats in the (reputable) peer-reviewed journals. My answer to that question is above.

I believe that numerous skeptics generally stick to true but misleading information, but occaisionally stray over the edge into error (e.g. the errors documented on the SEPP page, or Richard Lindzen's mistake about climate models, or John Dalys errors mentioned at the end of Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years).