With reference to the topic, Where Are All The Adults?, the adults in this discussion have been in the majority: ttbn, individual, Armchair Critic, Hasbeen, Shadow Minister, Henry L, and Loudmouth.

Not adult yet, and never likely to be: Mr. Opinion and Aidan (as usual), supported by newcomer, Rob H.

ttbn,

The only thing that is adult about you and your group is that you are all senile.

Mr Opinionated,

Since I have 3 university degrees with the first one being a BSc Hons in Engineering followed by an MBA and a BCom, and spent a post grad year with the physics dept designing lasers to measure gas concentrations such as ozone and CO2, the last thing I need is a pretentious ignoramus (with a degree best suited for flipping burgers) trying to lecture me on the "scientific method".

Not only that, but I have also had an interest in the science and economics behind CO2 emissions and global warming. There are many factors in global warming, and the general consensus is that man's contributions greater part (>50%) in climate change not the only factor.

Shadow Minister,

It's good to see you have some training albeit vocational: your BSc(Eng) is just a 3 year engineering degree, not a science degree, and your BCom & MBA are pretty much useless outside of business and finance. None of them would have equipped you with critical thinking skills but at least it's better than having nothing.

i have a full 4 year BE and I can honestly say that it is the only one of my four degrees that has given me skills in flipping burgers. My Arts degrees are in all of that stuff you don't know anything about: history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, etc.

Most importantly, you state you have a working knowledge of climate change so I assume you are in a position to tell us what are the probable causes of global warming over the past 240 years i.e. the phenomena that have resulted in the 1 deg C rise above the preindustrial level c. 1780. Can you please list them for us? Don't be shy, we're all friends here.

Mr Opinionated,

Such ignorance in just one sentence! A BSc is a science degree, and engineering is almost always a 4 yr degree and is such a BSc Hons as I said above. Note that the prime factors running through all the eng courses is problem solving and critical thinking.

Secondly MBA are high level generalist courses that include marketing, economics, law, human resources (and motivation) along finance accounting etc all skills that are relevant to just about every endeavour on earth except maybe sociologists writing papers that no one will ever read.

As for your 4 year BE, I can't even find what it is which shows its relevant to the world, as for your arts degrees --> flipping burgers.

As for global warming you clearly have no clue and I don't have enough space to educated you, but here is a hint, over the past many millenia, the global temperature has swung up and down by 10s of degrees before man even walked the earth. So work it out.

You are being unkind SM.

He is probably qualified as a pen pusher in some totally irrelevant government department, like the Tiddlywinks bureau.