The most disturbing facet of this whole charade is the ease with which many respected scientists discarded the protections afforded by Scientific Method(SM). SM was the discipline that eventually reversed the countless woes created by centuries of sorcery and superstition. Current day acknowledged geniuses abandoned SM and declared global warming and alternative energy scams to be settled science without a single experiment or study controlled by the principles of Scientific Method. Einstein said it best when he observed, "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." That was the threat posed by Scientific Method, one properly designed experiment could cause billions of dollars of grant money to disappear so it was best not to do it.
Current day acknowledged geniuses abandoned SM and declared global warming and alternative energy scams to be settled science without a single experiment or study controlled by the principles of Scientific Method...I suspect that global warming and alternative energy became the focus of these scams in large part because they do not lend themselves to proper scientific methods of inquiry. When you're trying to deal with forces and trends that are worldwide and last for decades if not centuries, it's very difficult to hold investigators to principles like rigorous theoretically based predictions, controlled experimentation, and repeatability of observations. Much better to use predictive models which can be fudged and shaded to provide the results you want.
So if you need a big buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere to provide the catastrophic damage you require to push your green agenda like no more drilling for our own oil and lots of expensive windmills built by you friend General Electric, you come up with the parameter that CO2 remains in the atmosphere for fifty to one hundred years - that would provide a nice buildup, and how can anybody disprove something predicted to take fifty years at a minimum won't happen. Except some very smart people did. Using controlled methods of measurement and observation, they actually tracked CO2 release and dissipation, and now have over thirty studies showing that it remains around to maybe do us harm for only from five to seven years - hardly providing the concentrations needed to bring the destruction the warmists are hoping for. Time is running out for them - they tried to get away with gutter science, and real scientists are putting an end to their scams.....