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Old 06-08-2019 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Global warming is scientific fact.
Science has a lot of facts, if you count boiling points and vapor pressures and stuff. But global warming is a hypothesis.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. If it survives enough challenges it becomes the predominant theory. But even then it isn’t a fact. Ptolemy’s heliocentric theory of the universe survived for 1400 years before Copernicus trumped his hand.
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