Climate sceptics like to argue that the case for cutting emissions is not proven beyond reasonable doubt.

 

"Non-believers don't have to prove anything".

Wrong.  This is not a criminal court case, where CO2 is innocent until proven guilty.  It's a matter of risk management.  The financial cost of making serious strides to reduce emissions is as nothing to that of a 3oC rise in global temperature.

In the last 100 years we have increased the CO2 level way beyond what it had ever been during mankind's previous existence.  We are in unknown climatic territory.  As with the unleashing of a new drug or food product on the public, the burden of proof is with those doing so.