Ahh, OK, gotcha. University-level classes can be a real help in understanding a subject, and congratulations on the 'A'! I can only imagine how many more university-level classes people who have PhDs in atmospheric science must've taken, and how much more they must know about weather and climate because of it.
Not to discount your skepticism, I think that's a healthy part of scientific inquiry, and your intuition surely has a place as well, but I think to continue the discussion in any meaningful way we'd need actual data and facts to support or dispute your contention. I'll keep looking.
As long as you take into consideration who is paying their salaries after being in tremendous debt from those Doctorate courses. Loosing your job in the field going against the grain isn't going to be beneficial.
I was just reading a story how they are trying to convince farmers in Ireland to cull 200K cows, at 65k cows per year in order to "do their part". Normally, when things are this political, pushed by powerful levels of so called "leaders", that's when I become more skeptical about what the scientist are saying because then I know an agenda is at play, rather than a healthy discussion or debate on the subject.
I'll give you a good example. My wife has a doctorate in higher education. She works for a stupid bellybutton college that is bascially putting itself out of business due to really stupid decisions by a president whose been there for way too long. Anyway, she could easily put her foot down and expose a lot of these stupid decisions to the "higher ups", but it wouldn't matter. Now she is going to through all of the stats and student reviews and they are horrendous. Almost every stat is dropping and employees are leaving in droves. My wife is looking for a new job because she is very scared the school is going to go under. Do you think those higher ups, who have doctorates, and all of that know what they are doing? Or do you think they are getting some kickback incentive while the school suffers?
So you see, its not necessarily about the "science". It's about pushing what the powers that be want, and if they think it's true, than they are going to push forward regardless of what any lower level tells them. Theres is a benefit for them, regardless of what hapoens to the society from the cause and effect chain reaction of their actions.