Friday, November 10, 2017

Climate Change: Science versus Politics

Via Dan

Global Warming

For centuries, human beings, inquisitive by disposition and design, have sought to understand the workings of the natural world in which they live.  Scientists, observing these same events, are driven by the demands of scientific inquiry to study natural events and explain how they occur so that this knowledge can be used to improve the human condition.

To begin the process of scientific investigation, scientists make an “educated guess,” or hypothesis, to explain the observed activity.  It is, however, not sufficient to propose the explanation without proving its accuracy.  An experiment must be carefully designed so that the results will either support or disprove the truth of the “educated guess.”  As the experiment proceeds, data is collected, analyzed, and conclusions are reached in an orderly process.

2 comments:

  1. The climate thing is not science in the first place. It is computer models that only go by the assumptions put into them. The papers they put out always start "we have found such and such" but what they jean s the computer model put out such an such.

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