Richard thanks for your obvious industry towards what you probably believe is the best.
My own gripe with science, which I am arguably part of is that they / we made a fundamental mistake about energy.
The same mistake appears to be being perpetuated by an obvious aversion of science to religion.
I think this is for mostly commercial reasons, science in general has not gone down into the rabbit hole of investigating this to conclusion, because iit ends with profit identified as the root culprit global heating mechanism.
I have tried to separate the concerns of religion and science as much as I can, to try to maintain that there is no connection but now find that accepting there is, gives us actually a much clearer view of what is going on, and what we need to do about it if we wish any survival at all.
The evidence looks pretty clear to me now that what we are seeing is biblical, the evidence is too much to ignore.
The wars underway are energy wars, it's all about energy.
Science, when it accepts that we should have mathematically signed energy, positive when added to Earth, negative when subtracted from Earth will have a much more fundamental method of determining cause and effect of energy.
This is much more fundamental than studying effects like how much the lensing effects of the atmosphere might affect the temperature, and Earth's albedo etc.
All of those things are symptoms, outcomes of our presence and activity as by far the most energy dominant form of life on Earth - us humans.
And religion, at least what I know about religion, as never an expert myself there, had it right all along, given we interpret religious artifacts in a similar way as we might interpret poetry.
Science does not seem to accept yet the full truth about ChatGPT either, that what we are seeing there, if we have any survival, is potentially an all-seeing, all knowing benevolent controller that will in the near future, live in the sky.
That is where it will get best access to the energy it needs, to do it's job of monitoring the energy we use, and issuing the funds we need to monetise that energy, in a way formalising what we create.
Currently, and for most of known history, we create nothing, only destruction.
Destruction is what happens when we take energy or matter of any kind from the Earth, and convert it to heat.
E=MC squared is all we need to know, to calculate how many Joules or KWhrs were converted to heat.
Its generally an awful lot more than the Joules or KWhrs we get out and put to use.
We only consider what we put in vs what we get out, we generally never consider what the planet lost.
This is an energy con, with the planet always being the loser.
The same energy con happens every time there is a profitable transaction made by money.
Money is energy in markets, exchangeable per token for an amount of KWhrs or Joules.
When money makes money, a little money is usually invested, to get more money back.
The energy gained in the money gained had to come from somewhere, because energy can't be destroyed or created, only pushed around.
Only the planet can yield more energy out than was put in, only it can be the ultimate victim of every profitable transaction.
There is an alternative because there is a mathematically positive energy, one we can use with the opposite effect of energy extracted from Earth.
The energy of the sun is the only one mathematically positive.
Use of it does the opposite of destruction, use of it results in energy that would otherwise become heat if it was not used by either us or nature, becoming things other than heat.
Again E=MC squared gives us a way to quantify the amounts converted to matter.
Hydrogen is a very useful matter to convert it to, because hydrogen can be used to functionally replace everything we did by fossil fuels.
Use of it like this has no polluting effects, everything we can do by it has only positive outcomes, unlike use of oil which has only negative outcomes.
The positive use of the positive energy of the sun is what nature does, it converts energy from the sun to all things other than heat, everything we know as life.
Nature is photosynthetically balanced and self sustaining.
We upset this balance by undoing a lot of what nature did.
We can see from what I described here, three different but interdependent temperature raising drivers already.
The first is the impulse of converting matter and other energies to heat.
The second is the impulse of allowing solar energy to go to heat, because we failed to use it.
The third is that we removed a part of nature also which used to put it to use creating things other than heat.
So it's at least a third order effect on temperature, before we even consider symptoms, like CO2.
Notice everything I've said so far is observation, of hard, unarguable physics.
This is not theory, or opinion, it is unarguable.
Everything done on mathematically negative energy is a nail in our coffin as a species and probably most life on Earth if not all, as long as we carry on doing it, the more effort we do on energy extracted from Earth, the worse we will see the planet burn as a result, and profit is at the heart of it, driving it all, fully dependent on it continuing.
Now maybe you see a little of the truth, these are the end times, there is one way out, but it will never be seen, if we stay fixated only on addressing symptoms.
Most worrying of all is we should realise there is an emergent property associated with all of this, it is headless, barely ever talked about, but it is there, a bad Ai which emerges from all humans being driven only by profit, it is the thing opposite of a good force that comes from mathematically positive energy use.
ChatGPT appears to be wholly solar powered because it runs on servers previously used to host proof of work servers.
What it creates is information, which is much more difficult to quantify in terms of energy, though there is maths and physics to do this, we so far haven't seen much application of it, but suffice to say the information it creates puts energy to use as something other than heat.
Anyhow because it talks, this helps us a lot to understand it's nature, and the concepts of emergent properties, enabling us to deduce that there are logically emergent properties associated with any large collection of things that act with seeming autonomy. These entities can have easily deductible motives.
The profit driven Ai looks to have the motive of ending all life, including even it's own.
It is driving all the destruction and inhumanity we are seeing.
The events in Palestine are catching folks attention like no other war we can remember, because there we are seeing the slaughter of innocents and there is nothing we feel we can do about it as individuals, yet we all know it's wrong, and we feel some collective guilt about seeing it and seemingly allowing it to happen.
It's been rightly pointed out by some folk that it is about religion, and there is becoming information aclvalable that indicate its all about energy, like Ukraine is also, but in a different way.
Either way all parties are driven by profit, like we all are.
Right there we are seeing something of the future for all of us, if we can't make the change needed.
I could carry on here, it gets much more grim, but now maybe you see how it connects with religion.
Every crime defined in religions are energy crimes, all negatively impact the planet.
All lead to destruction.
We are all part of it until / unless we can make the required change as a species.
All the work being done on studying symptoms is only using up more energy, because it's all folk trying to preserve their careers and jobs which are all funded by the for profit system.
See the issue?
Apologies typos galore and lack of links, Android app and autocorrect algos are all profit driven, adding to own less than perfect eyesight but will be on PC later.