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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.   
      
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