Gralin
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Do you think man made climate change is real?Bruce is quoting 1984.
I also kind of take issue with your use of the word 'belief' as far as it pertains to climate change science, even if it's a commonplace use of the word. Science is not a matter of belief, it's a matter of a theory upon which all observable evidence has verified up to this point. 'Belief' denotes a static thing, something which cannot be moved; Michael Faraday is attributed the quote, "I hold my theories on the tips of my fingers, so that the merest breath of fact will blow them away."
I'm not a scientist either, but I respect the work and the process by which they've arrived at their conclusions. The point of the scientific review process is to place enough weight behind a theory that it can be relied upon as though it were almost a fact via repeated testing of a theory by many people over time, in different ways and with different methods in order to increase what is known; that others seem to use that slightest of ambiguities to justify a cavalcade of ignorance or grift demonstrates the degree to which this is misunderstood.
Would that make you happy?
Of course Bruce is quoting Orwell I should have known he'd think that was a decent rebuttal to the overwhelming evidence in favour of man made climate change