Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by graeme on Friday September 13, 2013 @08:30PM (#6384107)

I could equally ask, how do you falsify the theory of 'things continue to be fairly ok'. I'm not trying to be facetious.

I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction. We only have one system, very hard to falsify.

We can falsify elements of evidence which suggest one planetary state over another. That's about it.

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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by indefatigable on Friday September 13, 2013 @09:19PM (#6384230)

I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction.

Then it's not science.

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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by msellout on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:01PM (#6384487)

Whether or not an activity is science does not affect the need to take action.

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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by CamperBob2 on Saturday September 14, 2013 @12:08AM (#6384614)

Well, yes, it does, or we'll lurch from one imaginary crisis to the next.

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