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There Are No Legitimate Arguments Against Human-Caused Climate Change
Climate change denial has made numerous headlines in recent weeks. David Rose stated in The Daily Mail that there has been a global warming hiatus covered up by dubious science, Bret Stephens criticized the certitude of evidence in The New York Times, and Trump is rapidly making decisions based on his belief that humans have not impacted climate change.
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We are at the end of an Ice Age in a rhythmic cycle traveling through space. Imagine the complexities of that, I certainly can not. That is a debatable argument. And when science says the science is settled, the debate is over, science did not say that. As a non=scientist, this is very difficult for me.
Science never says the debate is over. It says that there's an explanation that so far fits all the available evidence, or, if there's contrary evidence, we don't have an alternate explanation that explains all of it. Saying that the debate is over is pretty much the opposite of science.
The problem is, in this case, you're talking to people who are used to thinking in terms of absolute truths, and assume that any level of uncertainty means an argument is flawed. So you either speak to them in their own language, or they'll never stop saying "it's just a theory!"