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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by jswinghammer on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:03PM (#6955556)
It would a stretch to equate the current state of climate science with the current state of physics in terms of the reliability of its' predictive models.
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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by snowwrestler on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:12PM (#6955975)
This creates a false dichotomy between climate science and physics. Researchers studying the climate use physical models to do so. And their accuracy is not bad--100 years ago they predicted that burning fossil fuels would warm the climate, and that matches what we measure today.

The precision is low, though. That is a result of the chaos created by the immense complexity of the systems involved. We can't predict the precise path of an individual electron through a bar of copper either.

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Re:Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight actio... by cashmonkey85 on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:32PM (#6956063)
I know people that denie carbon dioxide traps heat and wish that basic science is a conspiracy.
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