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People who believe that global warming is caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels often say that most climate scientists agree that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

I doubt that anyone has accurately surveyed climate scientists, and therefore we cannot be sure if climate scientists agree or not. But I think that it is likely that most climate scientists agree that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions, for the same reason that most bible scholars believe that the bible is the word of god.

If the bible is the word of god, then studying the bible is very important. But if the bible is not the word of god, then studying the bible is not important. So a person who believes the bible is the word of god is more likely to become a bible scholar than someone who does not believe the bible is the word of god. So most bible scholars believe that the bible is the word of god. But bible scholars do not become convinced that the bible is the word of god by studying the bible. Bible scholars already believed that the bible is the word of god before bible scholars became bible scholars.

Likewise, most climate scientists believed that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions before they became climate scientists. If global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions, then it is important to study the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. But if global warming is not caused by carbon dioxide emissions, then there is no reason to study the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. People who believe that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions are more likely to become climate scientists than people who do not believe that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

Global warming is the religion of climate scientists.

So when someone tells you that most climate scientists believe that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions, remember that most people who study alien abductions believe that alien abductions are real, most people who study psychic powers believe that psychic powers are real, most people who study ghosts believe that ghosts are real, most people who study the evidence that the earth is flat (or hollow) believe that the earth is flat (or hollow), most people who study socialism (or capitalism) believe socialism (or capitalism) works, and the same for every other kind of pseudoscience.

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