"In this series, I’m going to ask one hard question in each post and see how people answer it. This is your chance to show how smart you are!"

My take is--- this forum is your platform to show potentially >10k readers how smart you think that you are. You very likely are is some ways, but--- you are not an atmospheric or climate scientist. Most of us are not, we just have some grasp of the data over the past several decades. All of us are fortunate to have an outlet to write what we believe whether others agree or not. Cheers.