Originally Posted by alf6300

We are pretty good at figuring out stuff that happened way before humans were around.

For example, we don't need to rely on recorded history to know that the earth went through a number of ice ages.

Nobody seriously thinks that the earth was never covered in ice, just because we have "no recorded history" of it.

We also have no recorded history of the tectonic shift, or photographs of the dinosaurs, nor did I ever see in person the dead body of Elvis. Indirect evidence, in such cases, is just as good for anybody not wearing a tinfoil hat.



Wrong, sorry.
Religion makes no falsifiable predictions (except when it says that the world will end in 2012, of course.)

Climate scientists make PLENTY of predictions that are very easy to check.
They do it all the time, it's pretty much their job (albeit certainly not on a month-by-month or zipcode-by-zipcode basis).

Make a small model of the earth and put it under the sun. It gets considerably hotter if you fill the atmosphere of your small model with co2.

That's essentially what climatologists do, and extrapolate the data to see how much co2 will make the global temperature hotter, and when. A very falsifiable prediction, indeed.

Sadly, the model and predictions have not been falsified yet: quite the contrary. So I would prefer not to bet my ass and my kids ass that they are wrong, but that's indeed what we are doing.