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Originally Posted by u-Bob
No offense, but that's a logical fallacy. Whether or not something is true or false does not depend on the amount of people who believe it to be true or false.
There used to be a time that the majority of the experts all agreed that the earth was flat.
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None taken, and (no offense to you either) imo you're on some shaky logical ground yourself. Making comparisons to the 'experts' of (let's say) 500 years is pretty weak. I mean, i don't think i even need to go into any depth about how far science has come since then.
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Originally Posted by u-Bob
When I first started going to school, the teacher told us a new ice age was coming. A few years later, another teacher warned us that instead of global cooling we would have global warming and that by the year 2000 cities like New York would be swallowed by the sea.
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You know what? They were both right.
Teacher #1 was right in that every time in Earth's history where CO2 levels reached a critical point, an ice age ensued very shortly thereafter.
Obviously his timing was off, but Teacher #2 was right as well in that we are already seeing sea levels rise due to the rapid melting of the polar ice caps and other huge ice formations like the Greenland polar ice sheets.
Interesting article that ties the two
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/ja...onment.science. it's an older article, but still.