Settled Science
Posted on February 19, 2010
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Is global warming really settled science? A really good point – in a certain sense no scientific theory is ever settled.
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I’ve never heard scientists among the global warming side saying only man is involved. They do say that the disproportionate impact is manmade.
The problem is that what the denialists are latching onto (and using quite successfully) tend to be pretty tangental to the actual claims of global warming. But I agree data need to be public.
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I agree. It also does not help that we’re uncovering several sloppy Global Warming issues: emails that suggest conspiracy, predictions of Himalayan glaciers disappearing coming from non-peered source, etc. The data really needs to be scrubbed, sanitized, and presented anew.
But there are others issues. Even if man-made global warming is real, what total impact do we have? Is it a major impact all the time, or just making blips occasionally? Can Mother Nature quickly over-rule and put us into a cooling period (as some major scientists have stated we are now entering)? Can solar activity change things?
It is silly on both sides of the issue, as Global Warming theorists seem to teach that ONLY man is making things warm up; while others seem to teach that man makes no impact whatsoever.