Originally Posted by
Winged Wheeler
Did science occur at the bike shop and at Kittyhawk, or only later when it was published?
When dealing with systems as huge as the global climate, you're working primarily with probabilities. You can't duplicate this stuff in a wind tunnel.
Look, we've been through all of this before. In the 50s, peer reviewed science started to link cigarette smoking with lung cancer. The tobacco industry hired medical doctors, celebraties and quack scientists to publically characterize those papers and studies as "junk science."
That worked for a while but today you'd be hard pressed to find someone who
doesn't think cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.
We have to get this right because the consequences are global, not just some individual smokers dying of cancer.