Isn't observational science the tracking of historical statistics, corelating potential causes, and then testing those to reproduce the results?
I believe that has been done already by numerous, unaffiliated sources.
It's true that there are natural causes to environmental influence that can, and have, easily outweigh all of mankinds actions, but the scope of the swing currently is very high and directly parralleled to the last hundred year rise in hydrocarbons and CO2.
The polar ozone layer no longer cover parts of Austrailia and they have record amounts of skin cancer. Connection? Mabye oil companies should be forced to subsidize the medical fields instead.
Also, NASA pictures of the shrinking poles from 30 years ago dramatically show to the naked eye how much ice has been lost. But on the other hand if one doesn't believe that water isn't going to end up somewhere, I've got some property in La. I'd like to sell you
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