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A graph without the scientific theory that leads to an explanation is just an opinion at best Erm, the graphs just shows facts, no? Whether there's an explanat
by stinos 10y ago
A graph without the scientific theory that leads to an explanation is just an opinion at best
Erm, the graphs just shows facts, no? Whether there's an explanation already or not doesn't change anything about the observation. You are basically saying 'ok so an apple always falls down from a tree, but I cannot explain it, so it's just an opinion that it falls down instead of up'
As for a): the data likely comes from http://nsidc.org http://nsidc.org
- tsaprailis 10y agoNo, because if you read the twitter post it says: "Something is very very wrong." Where is that derived from? What the scientific theory that predicts that such a drop in the global ice sheet is very wrong? I'm not saying that something could not be wrong, but giving a graph and claiming that something is wrong is not very scientific. For all we know this could be very wrong, mildy wrong, no wrong, good etc EDIT: For a) I took a quick look at the site but couldn't locate the graph. Again I'm not saying it's falsified, but pointing to the original source is always nice. If nothing more we could get some additional details.
- stinos 10y agoAh I missed the part where it says 'something is very wrong'. Yes that makes not much sense (or is very vague), based on just this graph. I think the nsidc site just provides raw data, creating graphs is up to the downloader of the data
- polotics 10y agoIt is not just opinion, all the models agree that once albedo drops enough, we enter a self reinforcing new climate mode, and all the measurements eg. ice cores from aeons past indicate that our 15'000 years "human civilization" and progress rode a freak very much not normal occurence of very stable climate.
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