Climate science ... settled ? 1

[rb1957]

is there any (other) field where the science is "settled" ?


Is there any field of scientific investigation where new results don't answer some questions, but raise new ones ? where we learn something new ?

The answer is of course not. We live in a world where science is expected to answer all questions, with rock solid certainty. Especially when we're being asked to make very large sacrifices, so the science needs to be "settled". Uncertainty would mean "why are we spending so much, and maybe not getting any significant return ?"

We live in a world of sound bites and slogans, where new discoveries are met with "they were Wrong !"

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.

 

[dik]

You can quibble about the numbers; the interesting thing is that the atmospheric concentration continues to increase, albeit a little slower.

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-Dik

 

[GregLocock]

I can quibble about the numbers, but the numbers are what they are using to mislead you and generate their scary headlines.

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[dik]

The chart that I posted (see above) gives you an inkling of the increases... does not look promising or good.

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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[GregLocock]

I can post any number of graphs with manipulated y axes of irrelevant things. If the climate sensitivity to CO2 is of the order of 1 deg C per doubling then all the panic is completely unnecessary. So far all we've seen is a bit of warming as we come out of Little Ice Age. The earth is a bit warmer (but people generally still migrate to warmer climates) , a bit greener, and is killing fewer people with climate related deaths.

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Greg Locock


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