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Re: Climate Change - record World temp. rises in Feb.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
It's still all just based upon theories.
Whenever they make specific predictions, then tend not to be true. Instead the policy nowadays is to make vague predictions which cover every possible outcome. Eg Global Warming has become Climate Change.
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Gravity is just a theory* - try ignoring it... 
Just a theory
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"Just a Theory": 7 Misused Science Words
"A word like 'theory' is a technical scientific term," said Michael Fayer, a chemist at Stanford University. "The fact that many people understand its scientific meaning incorrectly does not mean we should stop using it. It means we need better scientific education."
Climate-change deniers and creationists have deployed the word "theory" to cast doubt on climate change and evolution.
"It's as though it weren't true because it's just a theory," Allain said.
That's despite the fact that an overwhelming amount of evidence supports both human-caused climate change and Darwin's theory of evolution.
Part of the problem is that the word "theory" means something very different in lay language than it does in science: A scientific theory is an explanation of some aspect of the natural world that has been substantiated through repeated experiments or testing. But to the average Jane or Joe, a theory is just an idea that lives in someone's head, rather than an explanation rooted in experiment and testing.
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* and a Law
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