I would counter by saying that listening to a physicist talk about global warming makes as much sense as listening to a botanist talk about class O stellar bodies.

Now, off of the snarky remark, and onto the rant. The matter of global warming reveals the bulk of humans (scientific and non-scientific) as lacking in areas of basic thought. Global warming is not a political issue. It's not a social issue. It's not even an editorial issue. And yet it is treated as such by the media, the education system, most scientists, and every politician who walks the earth today.

That people even have opinions on this issue is insane. It's like having an opinion about the method by which whales reproduce or what the chemical byproducts of paint production are. It's a matter of study, observation, experimentation, and analysis. But this very empirical set of data and conclusions have been lost in the quagmire of political, corporate, and monetary interests.