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Re:The Coming Ice Age (1958) by lolc on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:40PM (#20186878)
I'm confused because you seem to have read a different article. In the one I read, people have no influence on the climate. It says ice-age cycles are inevitable. That humanity can adapt by building levees. There is no talk about political control.

The rest of your post is pseudoscientific woo about natural "cycles".

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Re:The Coming Ice Age (1958) by briantakita on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:09PM (#20187064)
That's true in a literal sense since the article was from the 1950s. I'm mainly speaking to today's politics.

> The rest of your post is pseudoscientific woo about natural "cycles".

Please enlighten me on what "real science" is then. If there are no cycles in the climate, is it purely driven by randomness, exponential or asymptotic growth? How did Earth's climate even get into a state of stasis? Why do ice ages & warm periods occur & cycle back? Why/how do warming & cooling trends eventually reverse?

Does science not utilize models? Is there not experiments & observations to back up models? What about the Philosophy of Science? Does our preconceptions influence how we model phenomena?

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