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Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers.
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Spendulus
on 10/01/2014, 03:17:49 UTC
Hence my argument that we should falsify AGW claims, in other words, MAKE THEM TESTABLE. Someone needs to make a claim that can be falsified according to Karl Popper's demarcation solution. Then we can test and/or observe.
Well, they make falsifyable claims all the time.
"Burning of fossile fuel  --> more CO2 in the air"
"More CO2 --> more heat absorption"
"Higher temperatures --> increased melting of ice"
"Higher temperatures --> more water evaporation"
and so on
But is there even such a thing as a 'global average temperature'?

In reflecting on it, I see serious problems with that basic construction, on which many of these premises and arguments are based.  Hence, I would reject 'science' which attempted to draw conclusions from such premises with demonstrable errors.

Let me put it this way:  Anyone who does not understand what I mean in the above paragraph should definitely not be debating this subject.