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A comment on Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming. Parent comment

Re:Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Glob... by pbreit on Saturday January 28, 2012 @07:32PM (#3523931)
The words "settled" and "incontrovertible" have little place in science.
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Re:Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Glob... by jeffreymcmanus on Sunday January 29, 2012 @04:10AM (#3524844)
Not so. In fact the opposite is true; as scientists reach consensus about facts, it enables science to progress. Just because facts exist does not mean the process of scientific discovery ceases.
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