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|    Re: Position of science on human related    |
|    18 Sep 18 17:24:15    |
      >>>"Science" is never about consensus.       >>       >>Correction, it is and has always been about it.       >>       >>Ancient consensus by science was the earth was the center of the heavenly       >>bodies. Observation and common sense was the basis for the consensus.       >>       >>As people came to observe flukes in the observation of the orbit of the       >>planets; this conclusion came under increasing doubt. Complex explanitory       >>models to account for the flukes arose.       >>       >>A new view that the sun was orbitedd by the planets solved the flukes of       >>the observvations and did so in a more straight forward less complex       >>manner.       >>       >>A new sun centric consensus arose in support of that view and is now the       >>standard explanitory model.       >>       >>That is how science proceeds. A consensus model persists until new info       >>and/or a model with greater explanitory ppower comes along.       >>       >>So it is with the consensus on human related climate change.       >       >The consus comes last. It follows along behind the 'better answer'       >whenever that is found.              Yes, that is what I said.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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