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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
And everyone acknowledges that the data we have to work with are incomplete.
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No, it's nonexistent. There is no data that supports the thesis. There are guesses. I can accept "predictive" if it's based on extending a line, a trend, extrapolating
some hard data. It ain't there yet.
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If most other scientists think it's good science, that's a good indication that it is. You know, it being their field and all.
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"Most" don't comment on it at all, because they don't have any data. "Some" who have looked at it are coming to a group agreement that it "might" show something. Scarily, to me, these all tend to be the "mankind is ruining the earth" ideologues. To a large extent, their conclusions are as sound as the guy's statement, back in WWII, that the absence of sabotage in the West Coast was an ominous development.
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I don't know enough about the science involved to know, . . .
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Then you know as much as the "experts".
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. . . but it strikes me that most of the people on the "It's not a problem" side have ties to industry with a direct stake in the problem. This is not dispositive, since you would expect those industries to support the folks with those views, but . . . .
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Who else is going to have the time and resources and interest to even look at the field?
Read the article if you get a chance. It's interesting.
