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by dls2016 864 days ago
I've been saying this for years: climate science isn't science (in the falsifiable sense), climate is nonlinear and humans don't like to rock the boat. This is especially true with a big, cross-disciplinary project like the IPCC report.

(Yes, I understand parts of climate science are falsifiable... I'm at least semi-educated as a former meteorologist and former PDE guy. But the conclusions of the IPCC report are not testable.)
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FrustratedMonky 864 days ago
Kind of like how biology isn't a science? Because observations doesn't count, since they are not testable?

This is just playing with words. That 'science' must be 'testable' or it is not science, and all other fields that either have observations, or theory, is not 'science'.

Theoretical Physics? Not science?

What word should we use?

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