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How can it be since the 1500s if we can accurately measure this for only a little over a hundred years? There was this sceptics question about a newspaper from
by Kaiyou 7y ago
How can it be since the 1500s if we can accurately measure this for only a little over a hundred years? There was this sceptics question about a newspaper from 18XX about the hottest summer and all the answers pointed out that we couldn't measure accurately back then.
- acqq 7y ago> How Science! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past...
- Kaiyou 7y agoThere's an emphasis on the word "likely" in that article, so it's speculation at best.
- acqq 7y agoIt's not words: science has much more exact way to estimate the confidence in any scientific result -- numerically! The estimates are valid and good. It's certainly not "speculation" like you now "speculate" with your doubt, but it's a scientific estimate, guided by the scientific processes. To dispute them, you'd have to raise to that level, be educated enough and able to understand the work already done, not speak empty words of doubt.
- Kaiyou 7y agoYour appeal to authority isn't convincing.
- acqq 7y agoI'm definitely not appealing to authority. I'm claimng that nobody should take you seriously when you don't understand the topic and moreover even show that you don't want to learn.
- Kaiyou 7y agoIf you weren't appealing to authority you could make your point without referring to an authority. But what you told me was that there is an authority who said something that I am not allowed to dispute without also becoming part of said authority. Hence my reaction: your appeal to authority isn't convincing. Feel free to use exactly the same arguments your authority would use, but just saying "because they said so" won't convince me.