re: #310 lrsshadow

Actually no.

The scientific consensus, particularly in the hard science is almost never overturned once the data is in.

Further, when things have been overturned, it has been an expansion and a modification to what was already known, not a refutation of everything that came before.

The ultra-violet catastrophe, may have ushered in QM, but it did not overturn classical electromagnetism. Einsteinian gravity may have reworked Newton’s equations, but Newton is still right in the absence of relativistic effects.

The evidence is in. We are causing the warming. Nothing new is going to come and change that.

Here is why:

1. We are heating from the bottom up and not the top down.

2. The current warming is in step with CO2 emissions.

3. The current warming started with the industrial age.

4. Orbital variations, volcanic emissions and solar variation have been ruled out conclusively. In fact, we are warming in a period where the orbital variations should be cooling us and the sun has a very slightly lower output than usual.

5. We see the direct rise in concentrations of CO2 and we know we are the one’s dumping it into the atmosphere. We can calculate that this must raise temperatures because QM and thermodynamics are still true.

Now that is the science. It adds up to 100% certainty that we are the cause of the warming.