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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
... Can't see what it has to do with the science of Climate Change ...
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Originally Posted by wodin
Because it demonstrates the value of a healthy skepticism of a consensuses of “mainstream scientists”.
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The late, great Stephen Gould had this to say about the issue of “creationism”:
…..“In science, ‘fact’ can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”
……....— Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002), “Evolution as Fact and Theory.” From
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History.
The same logic applies to the global warming debate, and explains why consensus was not achieved overnight.