Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Fox News and global warming

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/10/07, Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:42 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> > It is interesting that one network is playing such a strong role in
> > promoting distortions of science:
> >
> > http://foxattacks.com/
>
> Humans causing global warming is a theory, not a fact. A theory is
> nothing more than an idea about how something happens or has happened.
> It will be impossible to attribute climate change to any one cause as it
> is impossible to have a control and it is also impossible to isolate the
> system and test just one factor. Thus human-caused global warming will
> never become more than a theory as we can never prove it. Theories are
> just educated or semi-educated guesses and can and will be challenged
> and attacked, simply because there's no way to prove the critic nor the
> defender right or wrong.

I do not understand this argument.  All science is made of theories.
Some have stronger evidence for them than others.  But calling
something a theory doesn't make it more true or less true.

Regards,
Mark
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Midwest Telecine LLC
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