There is massive consensus around IPCC's conclusions within the scientific community. The topic of the discussion here is not if climate change is real or not. You should find another site to discuss that.
> There is massive consensus around IPCC's conclusions within the scientific community.
So what? Science doesn't work by consensus, it works by making predictions that match reality. If the predictions don't match reality, all the consensus in the world doesn't make good science.
> The topic of the discussion here is not if climate change is real or not.
I'll leave that to the moderators to decide. One of the items in the RFS was asking for research on taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. It seems appropriate to ask whether doing that is really worth spending time and energy on when we have so many other pressing issues that need attention.
Only if you believe the predictions of the models used by the IPCC, which have already been falsified by the data. CO2 has been rising according to the most pessimistic "business as usual" model scenario, but actual warming has been less than that predicted by the most optimistic "massive reductions in CO2 have already happened" scenario. This is the huge elephant in the room that is never mentioned by climate change alarmists.