On 15/6/19 4:15 am, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Xeno
wrote:

On 14/6/19 6:31 pm, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Xeno
wrote:

The science on climate change was *settled* in 1981 according to a
report put out at the time.

Science is *never* "settled", as anyone who knows anything about it -
not you, it would seem - will say.

Not my word, the word of climate scientists in general. All that has
happened since 1981 has been further confirmation of what was
determined in the 81 report.

Then they are not scientists, since any scientific idea has to be
susceptible to being proved incorrect. Note: Any scientific hypothesis
can be proved untrue. It can never be proved true, however; all any
scientist can manage is to provide evidence that supports the
hypothesis.

This has been true throughout history. Time was when it was "settled"
that the Sun goes round the Earth. Dispute that, and the Catholic

Those *theories* were not based on any form of *research*. It was
*empirical research*, and the results therefrom, which debunked those
incorrect assumptions.

Church would threaten to cut your balls off. Then along came Copernicus
and Galileo and others, who demonstrated that accepting that planetary
orbits could be non-circular, and that the Sun was the centre of the
Solar System, could lead to a *much* simpler and *more* *accurate*
picture of the SS. One which, moreover, could make accurate predictions
about where the planets would be in the future, especially when
combined with Newton's Theory of Gravity. But then even the latter was
replaced by Einstein's General Relativity, which works better than
Newton in extreme situations.

Since anyone disputing that climate "science" is "settled" gets threats
like those I mention above, I deduce that climate "science" owes more
to religion than real science.

Are you a climate scientist? I suspect not.

"Climate scientist" is an oxymoron. I'm a physicist by training.

So you aren't a climate scientist, ok. Noted.

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Xeno


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