Show me anywhere I've ever said that.
Never said you did. I was just trying to understand where your line of reasoning lead to. I get it. Don’t worship science as a label. But are you proposing better methodology? I think you’re sellin this “95%” short. My point is the modeling IS the science. (or part of it anyhow) To say it’s not, or that is faulty science is throwing me for a loop.
I think as we discuss this I'm becoming more convinced that modeling is not science and that this is where a lot of the problem arises in this discussion.
Data processing and predictive analytics are tools, they are applications of science. What makes a monte carlo simulation run on a stock portfolio not science and the same tool run on environmental data suddenly science? Is it just inherent in your data, that if you run analytics on "science stuff" you get science?
The models are logical systems, they don't create any information, they can't, they just identify connections that are not inherently obvious to the human eye. Without observation where's the science? Sure the people studying this can take the models and go do science, but the models themselves are no more science than the data itself.
This has nothing to do with fault, or invalidity.
What experiments do you want them to do? What would be conclusive to you? Is there something that can/should be done to result in “settled science”?
Settled science of what? I think my original charge was that we'd need instellar travel so that we could test theories with something other than an N of 1.
Or just that there is warming?
Or that man generated carbon alone out of the millions of daily impacts that apply to the climate is the primary cause of a warming trend?
Opposes carbon sequestration? Nope…
Any emissions? I know some who hope we can achieve it someday, as sorta an ideal to strive for.
I only mention that one cause there was a poster on here a long time ago (maybe a couple) that argued that carbon sequestration was immoral.
Paint the US as a bad guy? Well… we were. We’re kinda an ex-con at this point.
It seems to be a tenant on the left that the US is primarily an evil force in the world. They rejected the idea of American exceptionalism and went out the other side to the "US can do no good." The fact is we are one of the best guys on almost every area of liberal/progressive thought, on human rights, on the advancement of equality and justice, and yes, on the environment.
We have literally been harming our business interests with self imposed sanctions for decades.