Comment Re:Science creates understanding of a real world. (Score 1) 770
- * A number of gases interact with the upper atmosphere is such a way as to trap heat within the atmosphere.
- * Since the industrial revolution we have been releasing huge quantities of these gases that were previously sequestered within oil and gas deposits.
- * The churn of the atmosphere allows for the passage of the newly released gases from the lower atmosphere to the upper atmosphere.
- * Some of these same gases also sublimate into the ocean where they dramatically affect the PH of the ocean which cause major problems for the top dwellers of the ocean where much of our oxygen is generated.
The issue isn't that there isn't a text book or a clear laymen description of the problem it comes when someone says: so prove to me that the churn of the lower atmosphere can carry these gasses to the upper atmosphere and the scientist starts talking about climate models which cannot predict any specific event with a high degree of accuracy but do tend to predict trends with great accuracy. To me this is like saying: what is the energy of a particle in a chamber at a defined pressure, temperature and density. The answer is very easy to give the average but essentially impossible to give the exact unless your model knows ALL of the inputs (i.e. every momentum vector and quantum state of every atom contain within the chamber).