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Old May 30th, 2004, 08:09 PM       
Ok guys, you can't prove or disprove global warming. Science doesn't deal with truth and falsity, but rather with degrees of truth and falsity. You can't state that a theory is true or not, but you can state that it seems to match all the observations and data taken so far; that is to say, you can comment on how robust a theory is.

The idea of anthropogenic warming has a lot of models that support it, and the data we have so far indicates a correlation between rising mean global temperatures (this isn't really disputed anymore) and increased production of so-called "greenhouse gases". Whether the warming trend we're observing is involved in a cause/effect relationship with the increase is greenhouse gas production is at the very heart of the global warming debate, and is impossible to prove conclusively. Does that mean we should ignore it? This pundit says no.

After all, some of us don't want to kill everything.
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