Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Global Cooling, Hockey Stick, Ocean Acidification
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23 Mar 2017
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Climate Denial
Climate Denial the scientific
Denial and Skepticism
• Major part of the scientific process
• if youre skeptical you would discuss this with the scientist that
• no sufficient evidence means you are in denial
• both need to stem from the scientific process and need to come from conclusions in a
scientific act
• also room for the scientifically literate, and scientists from unrelated fields, to have
opinions but you are an observer, not a contributor to the weight of evidence
o if you are not from the same field then you are more than welcome to come
forward to be skeptical but not in the right place to be in denial
A Healthy Analogy
• Idea that science operates on the spectrum
• Complex theories imply there are going to be uncertainties and a question of what
causes what
• Series of probabilities is how we come to conclusions with healthy ideals
• We know strong relationships but when asked to provide specific terms in the
relationships they do not exist because of the nature of science
• Multiple lines of evidence indicating how our climate warms and reacts to many types of
pollutions
The Anthropogenic Theory of Climate Change
• Human driven climate change is the most accurate, and evidence based explanation for
earths urret situatio
Unscientific Denial and Skepticism
• No discussion of bloggers, news media people, scientists, etc. involved in the study
• Not all skepticism or denial of the anthropogenic theory is scientific
• Disagreements are strongly outside of the climate change community
• Many individuals chose individuals points of data, or conclusions and interpret then to
question the link between human actions and climate
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