Originally Posted by
noglider
This is how science works. Things are not proven, because they cannot be proven. They can be disproven. We go with what the body of knowledge points to, not stuff that has been proven. Your distrust for science appears to be based somewhat on your lack of knowledge of what exactly science is.
Lots of things can be proven. Unproven things that are undergoing attempts to prove them are theories. Some theories cannot be proven at a root cause level. Some things can be.
When they are hard to prove, then there is a tendency to rely on "scientific consensus" (an oxymoron of sorts) which has a distressingly common characteristic of being unceremoniously tipped on it's head by things like 32 year old patent clerks who come up with the Theory of Relativity and completely change entire scientific fields. The reason we have "breakthroughs" is because it destroys the scientific consensus of the time or context. Every field of science and engineering is filled with many similar examples and it happens every day in small and often in not so small ways.
So actually, this is how science works. It's not a vote and it never was. Skepticism is healthy .... and required.
I don't know if man made global warming is correct or not. I do know that the models based on current theory have some gargantuan holes in them and that the ability to predict what would happen from a given data set to predict actual following data (even when the data is known by history) are not good. That's a pretty good indicator that the science is not "settled" right there (as if there ever was such a thing anyhow - and should not have to be argued).
J.