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Originally Posted by RSflared72E
The span of time that we have been tracking temperatures is less than a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of world climate change.
The global warming mania isn't very good science. It's a theory, nothing more. But, it makes great media fodder.
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I'm not sure you understand what the term "theory" means in science. As pointed out there is a theory of gravity also, yet we know gravity is very real. A scientific theory is a comprehensive set of tested hypotheses that have explanatory power with respect to observed phenomena. Generally, we want our theories to be mechanistic as well.
The common use of the word theory is more like what a scientist would call a "notion" or " mere speculation." There is nothing wrong with it, but it is not science - and it isn't publishable either. You can toss it out to a bunch of grad. students and that is about the only use.
Second: The span of time that we have been tracking temperatures extends back (via ice cores and other types of data) for many many thousands of years. That is still just a blink in Earth history (unless you don't believe in another theory, Evolution, and instead believe the crazy man who said Earth was only 6,000 years old).
The real question is whether the span of time that we have been tracking temperatures is adequate to test our theories of climate change and what is motivating the extraordinarily rapid, and apparently very dangerous, warming we see today. The answer appears to be yes.