There is an enormous amount of scholarly articles written on the topic. Unless you have read a good majority of them, you are not speaking from any sort of position of knowledge.

I personally have not read a majority of them, and as such I defer to the conclusions of those who have, the climate research community.

What you are demonstrating is precisely group think. You do not have a professional depth of knowledge on the topic, but will quickly claim that those who do are all incorrect. The fact that you've thought a lot about it does not mean anything. Even if you've read a handfull of cherry picked articles, it does not mean you have any sort of expertise on the matter.

What? What kind of cognitive dissonance allowed you to equate

Agree with the article. Here I now await my downvotes from the groupthinkers.

with an actual argument.

Here, let me translate your comment for you:

Me too! Also, if you don't like my worthless comment, fuck you!

> What I add to the conversation is the observation that groupthinkers enforce conformity with downvotes.

No, you didn't add that. What you added was "only meanies will disagree with me".

And, even if you had added that, it's not all that interesting without specific support.

After all, they didn't actually laugh at Einstein but they did laugh at Bozo the Clown.