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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
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!
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Ah but we do hear those things from scientists. "If we start the LHC the earth will NOT be destroyed." "If people stop taking vaccines we will see a resurgence of previously defeated diseases like measles and such." "Unless we restrict fishing of x species to y levels the species will be wiped out". "Unless we remove substance abc from food d there will be an increase of bad thing e". And on and on.
Part of having a theory is making predictions to see if they pan out.
Al Gore isn't a scientist. What politicians and the media say about scientific matters is usually best thrown away if understanding is what's desired.
If you read the papers they say the same thing as other scientists... "If this trend continues this will happen, and these are the variables that can impact that", or they point out that what will actually happen is unknown, because the temperatures and other things are moving outside historical ranges.
And waiting for a perfect understanding before doing anything would mean we'd still be in caves.
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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
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.
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You're conflating to completely different things. They still make and understand how computers work despite not being able to harmonize gravity with the quantum world.