That’s quite a retreat from your original position. You posted in enormous capitals that “Many climate change scientists do not agree that global warming is happening”, supported it with a 30-year-old reference, and then, when challenged on it, say you “haven’t got time to research global warming.” You can't simultaneously make a confident claim about what climate scientists believe and then declare that you haven't got time to find out what they actually believe today. And the “people in power make the laws and we need to go along with it” argument is another non sequitur. Climate science isn't established because politicians passed a law. Governments make policy because the underlying scientific evidence is overwhelmingly clear. Whether you approve of a particular policy — EVs, carbon taxes, subsidies or anything else — is a separate political question. You are perfectly entitled to oppose EV policies. You are perfectly entitled to criticise governments. You are even perfectly entitled to say, “I don't know enough about climate science to have an opinion.” If you can back that up with logic, reason and evidence…. What doesn't really work is: “I haven't researched it, but here is a 30-year-old quotation proving the scientists are wrong.” That's not scepticism. It's having a conclusion first and then finding an old quotation to decorate it with. And ironically, “I haven't got time to research it” is probably the most honest thing you've said in this discussion. Remember, the topic is "Why so many conspiracy theorists and what to do about them" – your thinking is an example of how conspiracy theories use lazy thinkers to promulgate themselves
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