1. If you fly on jets bigger than a kite, don't preach to me about global warming.
2. If you have enough money, you can get scientist, or anyone for that matter, to say anything you want them to say.
3. And this is the important one boys and girls, you cannot have a
general consensus among scientists and call it science! Science
is not a GENERAL CONSENSUS!
I don't think you have to worry about Disney World going anywhere due to The Polar ice caps melting, you might, however, want to watch those hurricanes!
1. How does that change the facts?
2. True, but that doesn't change the fact that:
-I have seen the pictures of glacier national park evaporating
-I have seen the videos of massive ice shelfs breaking loose from the polar caps
-There are massive areas of land that were frozen that are not anymore
Bottom line, you can argue about the cause or even if it is happening...
BUT
The polution that is put in our air and water is what causes this (as you see it) debatable problem.
Are you really arguing that our air and water are as clean as they can and should be and that it is OK to polute our environment?
3. You really should read the following.
I would say the last part of the Scientific Method is the definition of a consensus, or at least the definition of the process to come to a sound consensus.
Scientific Method
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.[1]
Although procedures vary from one field of inquiry to another, there are identifiable features that distinguish scientific inquiry from other methods of developing knowledge. Scientific researchers propose specific hypotheses as explanations of natural phenomena, and design experimental studies that test these predictions for accuracy. These steps are repeated in order to make increasingly dependable predictions of future results.
Theories that encompass wider domains of inquiry serve to bind many specific hypotheses together in a coherent structure. This in turn aids in the formation of new hypotheses, as well as in placing groups of specific hypotheses into a broader context of understanding.
Among other facets shared by the various fields of inquiry is the conviction that the process must be objective to reduce a biased interpretation of the results.
Another basic expectation is to document, archive and share all data and methodology so it is available for careful scrutiny by other scientists, thereby allowing other researchers the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them. This also allows statistical measures of the reliability of these data to be established.
