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Originally Posted by Narcosis

Scientist are theorist not factualists.

Interesting how one can post something like that on the 'net using a computer of some kind... or do you consider that little thingie that puts the words onto your screen for the rest of the world to read mere 'theory' too instead of the concrete, physical manifestation of centuries of accumulated "theory".

I love it when people try and use the famous false predictions to debunk completely unrelated things as though the one refuted the other when they have nothing to do with each other.

Yes, once upon a time people believed the world was flat. And also that it was the center of the universe (by the way they were not scientists, since modern science did not exist back then). Then along came folks like Magellan (who was not a scientist by the way either), who proved the world was actually round - though he died before the voyage was completed and most educated people knew this already anyway (only it had not yet been proven) - and Copernicus who first proposed the heliocentric model of the universe that was (much) later scientifically verified by Galileo... who was able to do so thanks to a primitive scientific instrument that would be a toothpick, literally, compared to what modern astronomers use today.

Yes you can attribute false predictions to many scientists, yet you miss the point entirely which is that they are famous for what they got right and the discoveries and technologies that their findings led to (often indirectly and long after they've died, as today everything from the space shuttle to the PC is rooted in physics and mathematical "theories" that were developed centuries ago)... what they got wrong is merely a footnote curiousity made so only because of the accomplishments they were famous for.

And global warming/climate change is not a single, unified theory that can be simply proven or disproven; it is rather a consensus among the scientific community, as a whole, based upon observed and verifiable events. It is not a "theory" that the climate is changing, it is a fact and there is agreement that we are the ones responsible for the change and that if its left unchecked the consequences will be catastrophic.

The only "theory" remaining is in the timeline and in precisely how the changes will unfold...

The thing with you flat earth types is that you don't realize that there's not going to be a Magellan to come along this time to demonstrate to you what everyone else has already accepted, since for proof of the catostrophic consequences to occur they must already take place, and by then you will already be extinct.