PNW Tom, my reading of the various reports reflects many opinions of humanly-caused increases due to CO2 regarding global warming.  Your assertion that the "science is pretty well established" doesn't come across as strong as you try to project.

As far as my flat earth analogy, it will be very interesting to see whether your notions of human-caused climate change hold up 1,000 years from now or "such claims will predate science as they know it".  

In conclusion, I'll address your comments that climate change is almost universally understood by "real" scientists to be a real phenomenon...and...it's well established in mainstream science.  To quote Michael Crichton "consensus is the business of politics".  The whole climate change scenario is up to it's neck in politics, especially political correctness.  And finally a tip of the hat to the naysayers, another Michael Crichton quote "the greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus".