The Definition of Science

It ' s astonishing the rhetorical and cognitive contortions climate change deniers and flat earthers will go through to keep living in their fantasy world ' s. Climate science is incontrovertibly real science, which by rigorous and multiple lines of inquiry has reached conclusions as certain as any can be that humans, by spewing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, are causing overall warming of the troposphere and oceans. This in turn causes multiple changes in weather patterns including wetter and more powerful storms, more heat waves, droughts and associated wildfires, and severe ecological disruption, among other consequences.It is true that climate science is at the highest, most integrative level, not experimental. There isn ' t a second earth where we aren ' t spewing greenhouse gases to which we can compare this one. But astronomy, cosmology, paleontology, and many other perfectly respectable sciences do not have much room for grand experiment either. However, experiments do provide much of the underlying scaffolding of knowledge for these observational sciences. For example, astronomy and cosmology depend on physics which is experimentally testable here on earth, and paleontologists also use physics and chemistry to test their observational and deductive methods.There is a sort of junior high school mantra that people often chant to the effect that correlation can ' t prove causation, and a naive concept that only randomized controlled trials constitute " ...
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