Another Troubling Climate Article

[DrTimPerkins]

Heck it was once settled science that the earth was flat! Those that thought different were called "deniers". Just sayin.

Actually, the majority of western "science" at the time was based upon religious teachings, not actual science. Real science had established long before that time that the earth was round.

[DrTimPerkins]

Remember peak oil? Weren't we supposed to run out in the 80's or something. That was settled science.

With some it was, but I daresay that there was not a strong consensus among scientists on this.

[psparr]

I'm just trying to get across the point that we may know a great deal, but there is infinitely more we don't know.

[Scm]

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[eustis22]

Peak oil is actually a theory, based on best estimates of the capacity known oil fields, at the time. The difference being that climate change involves observable data. You can't actually SEE an oil dome emptying. It is also based on the population growing as energy supplies remain static. Well, renewables tend to reduce the amount of fossil fuel consumed so naturally the supply itself is growing.

[psparr]

Climate science is largely based on future models. That is "theory".

[DrTimPerkins]

I'm just trying to get across the point that we may know a great deal, but there is infinitely more we don't know.

Absolutely....otherwise I'd be out of a job.

[psparr]

Absolutely....otherwise I'd be out of a job.

Good comeback!

[eustis22]

Nonsense. What's theory is what's causing the warming, not the warming itself.

The Three Stages of Climate Denial (with apologies to Kubler-Ross):

Stage 1) Its not Happening.

Stage 2) ok, its happening but WE didn't cause it

Stage 3) ok, its happening and we caused it but theres nothing to be done now so why worry?

[psparr]

So you know for certain that before recorded history, temperatures were cooler or didn't fluctuate less than they do now?