"My confidence in the scientific consensus" is code for:
"I am confident that If I were to put in the effort to become educated about the mechanisms of climate change and look at all the evidence that is available, I would come to the same conclusion as the scientific consensus".
A lack of infinite resources prevents me from researching everything which is the consensus. Do you believe that beta decay is a real phenomenon? Why?
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)