"What is it about climate science which makes everyone (on both sides of the fence)"
Sorry wrong, I don't claim to know anything, I smell a Rat! Smell in a sense, like common sense. Everyone has it just some peole choose to ignore it I spose.
ptygmit you say "Me? I am in no doubt the world is warming. I read evidence of it's impacts every day."
Exactly the problem.... YOU ARE LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE!! Think back to a time when you wanted to buy something... a car or bike for e.g. Say a Toyota Land Cruiser.. what ever... all of a sudden you see them every where... Why? Because your interest is peaked.
"I read evidence of it's impacts every day"
Another thing, an old saying.. "believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear" No more true than today, with photo shop and computer technology.
