Wonderful post and glad someone is looking at this from first principles. One of the books I read by Michael Crichton called ‘State of fear’ made an impact on me in my youth and that book, more than anything else, made me a skeptic about mainstream narratives around climate ‘science’. Always felt uncountable with that skepticism when people were talking about climate change as though it were as blasé as gravity. Glad to see some critical thinking coming back into the discourse, now!