You bring up a good point, that statement was poorly worded and constructed. Still, not entirely inaccurate. There is little valid, objective science that supports the leap from theory to fact the claim of Global Warming being caused by man. Kewp’s mention of quantum chromodynamics and his subsequent response shows the naivete of many opinions.
Observing models and simulations are only effective to a point, as ultimately one cannot be 100% positive as to the validity of the criteria they are based upon. (We won’t go into the weakest leak which is the expectations, goals, motivation of the researcher themselves) Especially on a subject that is under constant change at so many levels (both known and unknown) as the earth is – meaning there is no fixed or final state or a constant. So, to be generously fair they have a 50% probability of being accurate. Do we need to address the physical “observation” statements? There is no fully “global observation” taking place it’s just not possible from a physical or technical approach.
Thats just scratching the surface, but it should give an objective mind pause as to the voracity of a statement claiming GW as a “fact”. If I were to just accept the claims of the GW proponets then I have to assume that they can accurately predict the weather for any given location in April, that should be easy as they are predicting the earths entire climate (which is inaccurate as there is not just “one” climate but hopefully the point is seen).
As I mentioned earlier who is to say that (if it came to pass) it’s necessarly a “bad thing” ultimately? Bad for who, what and how exactly? Will everyone and everything suffer? (Hey, maybe it’s the best for the earth.) If that question can be answered it’s certainly won’t be by any being that walks on this earth, it also raises a question of validity of some other theories that the more secular on this site hold so dear.
I’ll admit what I know with certainty about this issue, and that is I don’t know with certainty. No one does, they can’t unless they are the one who created the earth. Each of us needs to do the things in our power to curb pollution, a good place to start would be to seriously address the issue of poverty in the world.
One last thing, is that fear is both a big business and political tool and it’s being used against us very skillfully, and I certainly have no faith in most media sources, government or organization such as the UN to “do the right thing” if anyone even really knows what that is.
