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Re:YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Cl... by bsaul on Sunday January 19, 2020 @05:07AM (#22090528)
The basic scientific method and logic need to be taught indeed, but all the rest relies on experimental validation.

The problem with climate change is that experimental validation for the theory of human origin is extremely hard to get. The timescales for validation is on decades, measurements networks are sparse and faulty, all kinds of data twisting and extrapolation need to be done, and in the end we still don’t see anything in our day to day lives. Bush fires have always happened, there’s still polar bears and ice on the arctic, the maldives islands still aren’t underwater, and people still go skiing in winter holidays.

But this is also a reason to be careful with climate change proponents : their model are really just model at the moment, and the experimental validation of them is still mostly pending (although there’s a debate on that as well).

Time will sort this out and will make it obvious who was right.

Re:YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Cl... by fzeroracer on Sunday January 19, 2020 @05:28AM (#22090602)
>Time will sort this out and will make it obvious who was right.

Is this something you really want to hedge your bet on? Because the end result of climate change being real is essentially massive worldwide damage to human society as we know it.

So while you're right that time will sort this out, if you're on the side of the climate skeptics while the world is burning you won't find many friends.

Re:YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Cl... by bsaul on Sunday January 19, 2020 @06:08AM (#22090740)
My personal opinion changed to "let's not panic yet" once i had a look at the history of predictions made by this field in the past. This field has been making apocalyptical predictions "coming in the next ten years" continuosly for more than 70 years now, and so far nothing has been verified. To be honest, i'm talking about media coverage trying to alarm the population (as well as public speakers). It's very likely real scientist working in the fields are much more careful than media, as it is pretty much always the case.