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by toasterlovin 2698 days ago
While I am generally in favor of taking a very conservative approach to our impact on the ecosystems which we inhabit, you may want to reserve a little humility when saying things like:

> Sorry but you can't be one of the smartest human beings alive if you question settled science like evolution and climate change.

Climate change is not settled science. It's model building. It isn't really possible to set up experiments where you can control variables and test hypotheses (because there's only one Earth). In that respect, it shares more in common with economics than physics, chemistry, or biology. Everyone takes economists' projections with a grain of salt. Yet the complex inter-dependent ecologies that we call Earth are way more complex than the global economy. So maybe we should be a little more guarded in our statements about what we know about how climate works.

Just some food for thought.