You seem to have misunderstood the thread completely. The title is “Why so many conspiracy theorists and what to do about them?” It isn't “Let’s examine individual conspiracy theories and prove them one by one.” The subject is the mindset and reasoning of conspiracy theorists — why people are attracted to conspiratorial explanations, why they reject overwhelming evidence, and how you deal with that kind of thinking. So your premise is wrong from the outset. And as for “climate change is too complex to prove or disprove” — that is another misunderstanding. The underlying science isn't some mystical intellectual puzzle. The basic mechanism is remarkably straightforward: greenhouse gases absorb outgoing infrared radiation, increasing their concentration changes Earth's energy balance, and the planet warms. The complexity lies in predicting exactly how much, where and how quickly the consequences will unfold — not in establishing whether greenhouse gases warm the planet. And that is precisely the point of my OP: when virtually the entire relevant scientific community agrees on the fundamental conclusion, why do some people respond by declaring the science “too complex to prove” rather than examining why they distrust the evidence? – in scientific terms it is as proven as the link between smoking and cancer – in fact, more so. You haven't actually addressed the question in the OP. You've simply changed the subject.
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