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Comment Re:Estimates based on conjecture (Score 3, Insightful) 58

Actually, you are the ignorant one here because you want to justify your denial. Because scientists are aware they are just human, there are a lot of safeguards in place. The first one being the scientific principle. But I guess you lack insight into what that actually does and why it was created.

Global warming is a settled issue but we are spending millions of dollars on studies to confirm it on the theory that what is lacking is proof.

This nicely illustrates how deep your ignorance goes. This is not why these studies are done. The reason they are done is to refine and get more detail. That will be invaluable for evaluating the impact of things that could still be done and to prepare for the effects.

Comment Re: this is getting old (Score 2) 58

You must live a sheltered life in your long dead mom's basement.

Literally everywhere things have gone from bad to worse.

New deserts are forming apace in Southern Europe and in Central Europe snow is now a rarity.

Asia is turning into a sweltering hell in the summers, India is enjoying gulf-desert temperatures.

Tree species are dying out, and with them all the wildlife they hosted.

Model projections of the 90s (30 years ago) have been proven correct:

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-...

Lucky you who have no kids and grandkids to worry about.

Comment Re:The problem is the education system (Score 1) 148

Tables are not knowledge. They are data. They are "basics" for nothing knowledge-wise. What they do is they produce a nice, meaningless rote-learning exercise that can be examined easily to produce an entirely meaningless grades. They are nothing but a waste of time and create a false impression of "something having been learned". Hence, no, we have absolutely no issue if a kid cannot answer "12x11" from _memory_. If an older kid cannot find out what 12x11 is or does not see that it is somewhere "a bit more than 100" and accepts a false result that is one order of magnitude (or more) off, then we have an issue.

It is fascinating how many people mistake data memorization for "learning". Obviously, when you teach actual understanding, then most kids do not do so well. May explain why worthless memorization is still a favorite of many "teachers". May also explain why Math teaching fails routinely and most people fear Math. Math is actually very easy on this level.

Comment Re:Estimates based on conjecture (Score 3, Informative) 58

Seems you have no clue how Science actually works. You know what would happen to climate scientists that did what you claim? Loss of job, in bad cases loss of their PhD. You know why you do not read about that happening? Because these people do not do it. All published and peer-reviewed models say pretty much the same, and hence one being radically different would be immediately obvious ans subjected to intense scrutiny.

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