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No, denial of humans as the source of global warming has been a core value of lots of people, including of scientists that as late as 1970s were claiming that a
by notyourday 9y ago
No, denial of humans as the source of global warming has been a core value of lots of people, including of scientists that as late as 1970s were claiming that all their data indicated that humans were causing global cooling. The science was settled at that time as well.
- mikeash 9y agoThat's a myth. There was a brief media craze over global cooling in the 70s, but the science never pointed that way. Some scientists proposed global cooling, but it was never the most common view. See: https://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-about-global-cooling.html https://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-abo... In any case, thinking the planet was cooling in the 1970s, when there was much less data, much less understanding of how the climate works, and much less of a warming trend to examine, should not be considered equivalent to thinking the planet is cooling now.
- notyourday 9y agoYes, of course. The line of "heresy" is before the current data and it would never never never be changed. Because, you know, science!
- mikeash 9y agoSorry, I can't understand this at all. Could you restate it?
- notyourday 9y agot0 = science dataset S1 => claim "cooling!" -> everyone disagreeing is heretic! There will not be a dataset S1+S2 contradicting implication of S1! Our science is correct 4 evah! t1 = science dataset S1+S2 => claim "warming!" -> everyone disagreeing is heretic. There will be no t2 with a dataset of S1+S2+S3 that would contradict S1+S2! Our Science(tm) is correct 4 eveh!
- mikeash 9y agoOk, now I get it, but I’m not really interested in continuing the conversation with such weapons-grade sarcasm.
- yongjik 9y agohttp://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm > [W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.