I took your question very seriously and answered it honestly.

You are right in your assertion that the skeptics debate is about cause.

The earth is always either warming or cooling. Since WW II it appears that the earth has warmed somewhat although that appears to have stopped in the last 10 years or so.

Given that, it will not be which catastrophe makes me believe my Jeep (that I tow my boat with thereby making this relevant) caused it. It will be someone presenting evidence that co2 or cfcs in the environment actually change it more than Mt Pinitubo or solar activity.

The issue has been so politicized by the believers that they have stopped trying to convince and now just try to silence. Whoever said the US was the cleanest should have said western democracies. Of that there can be no doubt. Why aren't the earth firsters beating up China, India or some of the other third world hell holes where they take their air chunk style?

Where's the beef? Stop telling me the sky is falling, stop the Stalin-like suppression of dissent, and start presenting evidence!