So, DBear, somebody just made up global warming, because...? Did they want to make money? In that case, it failed. It is only draining resources, and nobody's gaining from it. Spread a panic? Then a story along the lines of "OMFG! There's a *huge* comet heading STRAIGHT for Earth! It's gonna hit us tomorrow!!!!!" Make us all feel guilty? In that case, somebody has missed out on all the stuff going on in the 3rd world. Get their name attached to a scientific groundbreak? Then they should have tried something more glamorous, like "FTL is possible and here's how!" I mean, if global warming is so obviously a fraud, wouldn't that work just as well?
In short, I can see no reason to make something like this up. Just for the heck of it, maybe?
Or maybe they are all really, really stupid and just got their PhDs from sheer luck, and you are in reality smarter than a significant majority of the world's scientists in that area. Or maybe the empirical method, the world's most thorough system of verification, is flawed, despite the fact that it has never failed before in the history of science, temporary setbacks barred, meaning that we should stop using all our machines *now*, before they tear a hole in hypersubspace and release supercharged negative space wedgies which might come to destroy us because all the people who made it are less intelligent and systematic than your average possum?
