Another Question
"Science" says that millions of years ago a good part of the earth was covered in ice, and that a "global warming" occurred which eventually created the world of today. What I want to know is, which dinosaurs owned the giant industries and drove the big SUVs that created the greenhouse gasses that brought about that thawing?
posted by Don, American Idle @ 4:19 PM
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The scientific opinion on climate change, as expressed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and explicitly endorsed by the national science academies of the G8 nations, is that the average global temperature has risen 1.1 ± 0.3 °F since the late 19th century, and that it is likely that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."
You make an interesting point about how scientific opinion changes over time and past "truths" are found to be incorrect. However, this does not mean we should discount all science. For example, if you needed an antibiotic to save your life, you would not turn it down because "science sometimes ends up being wrong."
More often, past views are not wrong, but incomplete, and we understand more now.
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