Comment Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? (Score 1) 497
How does one determine when science has "fully resolved" a question ?
When the theory accounts for the evidence from all repeatable experiments and sufficient time has passed (typically a couple of decades) during which new experiments aggressively attempting to disprove the theory fail to turn up evidence which either contradicts the theory or requires the theory to be modified.
It's impossible to not have a policy while we wait.
We had no public policy on CO2 emissions for most of recorded history. The world has not ended.
Proposed policy on global warming is expensive. Too expensive to get a second chance if we get it wrong the first time. The smart money says: wait until the computer models become reliable enough to simulate exactly what will and won't work. God help us if we regulate CO2 and it turns out that global warming was real but carbon soot was the main problem.