Remember, global warming is a theory.

Remember, so is gravity.

Mundus Vult wrote:

Remember, so is gravity.

Actually, gravity is a law. Laws describe WHAT happens and theories describe HOW they happen. A theory will never be a law, and laws were never theories. They describe different things.

Now, there are theories to explain gravity, but the phenomenon itself is a law.

Global Warming itself isn't a theory... there may be theories/hypotheses/conjectures about its cause or future projections

Tim Bits wrote:

Mundus Vult wrote:

Remember, so is gravity.

Actually, gravity is a law. Laws describe WHAT happens and theories describe HOW they happen. A theory will never be a law, and laws were never theories. They describe different things.

Now, there are theories to explain gravity, but the phenomenon itself is a law.

Yes, there is the law of gravity, and there are theories of gravity.

I'm not sure where our education system failed so that folks seem to think that theories become laws.

Global warming isn't even a theory, it's a phenomenon, or an observable event. Theories may describe the causes of global warming, or its effects.

Good Lord! For a minute I forgot where I was....you guys make sense!!

#theory

No Way wrote:

Yes, there is the law of gravity, and there are theories of gravity.

I'm not sure where our education system failed so that folks seem to think that theories become laws.

Global warming isn't even a theory, it's a phenomenon, or an observable event. Theories may describe the causes of global warming, or its effects.

Not sure who you are addressing but my point was only to point out the ridiculousness of demeaning an idea because it is merely a "theory."

Here are some other theories:

Theory of general relativity

Theory of evolution by natural selection

Theory of Heliocentrism (The Earth revolves around the sun)

Exactly. They are all theories.

Snowy cap wrote:

Exactly. They are all theories.

Yes. So the kind of people that have issues believing in global warming are similar to people that think the sun revolves around the earth and not vice versa.

That definitely could be!

L L wrote:

Snowy cap wrote:

Exactly. They are all theories.

Yes. So the kind of people that have issues believing in global warming are similar to people that think the sun revolves around the earth and not vice versa.

In fairness, you are also similar to people that think the sun revolves around the earth and not vice versa. Among other things, you have the common characteristics of breathing oxygen, drinking milk as an infant and laying claim to 26 pairs of chromosomes.

Gravity is a theory.

I'm with you, brother.

Global Warming is the most horrible scientific fraudulent hoax ever thrust upon the world.

Tim Bits wrote:

Mundus Vult wrote:

Remember, so is gravity.

Actually, gravity is a law. Laws describe WHAT happens and theories describe HOW they happen. A theory will never be a law, and laws were never theories. They describe different things.

Now, there are theories to explain gravity, but the phenomenon itself is a law.

Prove it.

Polly P wrote:

Global Warming is the most horrible scientific fraudulent hoax ever thrust upon the world.

A scientific fraudulent hoax, huh ? Hmm.... Scientific fraud and scientific hoax are two completely different things, and "fraudulent hoax" makes absolutely no sense for obvious reasons. So, it leads me to wonder. How does a person who does not grasp the basic English language begin to understand the scientific complexities of Global Climate Change Theory ?

Deadman Running wrote:

Polly P wrote:

Global Warming is the most horrible scientific fraudulent hoax ever thrust upon the world.

A scientific fraudulent hoax, huh ? Hmm.... Scientific fraud and scientific hoax are two completely different things, and "fraudulent hoax" makes absolutely no sense for obvious reasons. So, it leads me to wonder. How does a person who does not grasp the basic English language begin to understand the scientific complexities of Global Climate Change Theory ?

A scientific fraud and scientific hoax are not dissimilar, clueless.

Create a biodome. Take the temperature of the biodome. Now pump CO2, water vapor, and methane into the dome. Wait. Take temp again. Guess what? It will increase. CO2 and water vapor (steam) are the major byproducts of burning fossil fuels which contribute to global warming.

The question is does it matter? If we reduced industry output of these gases to zero what would happen. Also what is the alternative? The only viable alternative is nuclear. All others require too much infrastructure (wind, solar). We still have no frickin clue what to do with nuclear waste in the long term.

Alan