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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The one thing that I really love about science is that the unassailable theory or position today becomes tommorrows junk science.
I was watching the discovery channel yesterday which was pretty much a dinosaur day, and all of the theories around dinosaurs from my days in school have been completely thrown out.
As the technology and math and measurements change so does everything else.
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One thing that worries me when people scream "science" in this thread is that for how long has climatology been a "serious science" attracting the brighest minds? Two decades, three, four? Honestly?
But whatever the answer, I'm willing to bet climatology as a serious science is a lot "younger" than say theoretical physics. Now I am not an expert but I do like to read about astrophysics, quantum theory and what not. And also I am willing to bet these fields of science do attract smarter people than climatology does. Now to the point - one thing I noticed is that everytime a physicist speaks, he humbly admits that we still know very little about physics. No one is beating their chest screaming they have it all figured out.
Now Al Gore comes along with powerpoint slides of drowning polar bears and climatogy gets its 15 minutes of fame. And what do we hear about? Humble acknowledgement of the fact that this particular field of science is still young and there is still a lot about natural processes affecting climate we dont know anything about?
No.
What we see is bold statements telling us what will happen in 50 or 100 years if we don't act now! Global temperature will rise by XY degrees by the year 2100 and we are causing it!
Don't tell me that a relatively small number of scientists have it all figured out when a comparetively large group of (smarter) physicist are still largely in the dark when it comes to understanding how exactly our world works. I'm not bying it.