Setting aside your usual arrogance, and ignorance, did you know that over 40% of the birds on the Hawaiian Islands have gone extinct? And you have yet to prove that man is not contributing to the rise in temperatures.
Nothing whatsoever to do with climate change...and nothing at all to do with a mass extinction which is not happening.
And your inability to provide even one bit of actual observed, measured, quantified evidence supporting the claim that man is altering the global climate pretty much makes my argument for me....your insistence that I prove a negative for you just highlights the weakness of your position.
Where is "faith" mentioned? Science, something you have a limited knowledge of, begins with a hypothesis which is then proven, or disproven, by research. What has been proven is that the ice in the Arctic is melting, and, believe it or not, it is warmer temperatures that cause ice to melt.
The claim is that man is causing the ice to melt...not that ice melts...the "BELIEF" that man is causing the ice to melt without the first bit of actual empirical evidence is where the faith comes in. In fact, by definition it is faith...faith is belief not based on proof. Clearly there is nothing like proof that man is altering the global climate so your belief can only be faith.
If it were science, when I ask for observed, measured, quantified evidence supporting the claim that man is altering the global climate, you would be able to produce at least some of that sort of evidence.....and yet you can't. Like you said, science is about proving or disproving hypothesis....the hypothesis is that man is altering the global climate...where is the observed, measured, quantified evidence that he is, in fact, altering the global climate....do you believe the fact that we just happen to be standing here during a period of climate change is that sort of evidence?
Sorry fool, and you are a fool, at some point I had expected an honest, and adult, conversation with you. That soon ended just as I am sure Legboltz is finding out that there is no rational discussion possible with you. You wish ot ignore all of the findings made by science in the past 40 years, and instead rely on your 8th. grade education. And, of course, even Einstein had nothing on you for intellect. Well, in your mind anyway.
By honest and adult, I can only presume that you mean that because you believe it that I should believe it and then we discuss how much we believe it? That isn't honest or adult...that is little more than a religious discussion. I am asking questions, and asking for evidence that supports what you believe to be true. That is what adult conversation looks like from my end....for it to look like honest adult conversation from your side, you then present the actual observed, measured, quantified evidence which supports your position...not opinion pieces which simply presume that the basic hypothesis is true and then build upon that. That's what is wrong with climate science already.
And in your frustration at those in which you believe for not providing you with any actual observed, measured, quantified evidence with which to support your belief, you strike out and hurl insult at me....questioning my education when in fact, it is my education which leads me to ask the very questions which you don't seem to answer. My education taught me what the scientific method looks like...and the sorts of questions that should be a snap to answer if the scientific method were being observed...and yet, you don't seem to come up with any at all.
If we were having an honest and adult conversation, when you find that you are unable to provide even one piece of observed, measured, quantified data which supports your belief that man is altering the global climate, you might have some comment on that inability, rather than simply asking me to prove a negative...in an honest conversation, you might question your belief in light of there being no observed, measured, quantified data to support it....we are, after all, talking about the climate...an observable, measurable, quantifiable entity.
I show you evidence upon evidence upon evidence of the malfeasance happening in climate science and you ignore it all in favor of opinion pieces which assume the basic hypothesis to be true and then further comment on the disaster to come..."assuming the basic hypothesis to be true"...that's what honest and adult conversation looks like to you?
Unlike you I don't pretend to know everything there is about the climate, thermodynamics, etc.
Neither do I...but I don't take what is told to me as truth, especially when there is evidence to the contrary...I ask questions and when there is no answer to those questions forthcoming, I wonder why...and then I wonder upon what is the belief based if there are no answers available for basic questions. Belief in back radiation based on a mathematical model when every observation ever made failed to detect it is faith...not science....questioning the validity of the mathematical model based on every observation ever made is precisely what science is...
And you seem quite confident to make it appear as if the words of others are those of mine.
When you provide the words of others in support of your belief aren't you making them yours or at least attesting to their validity? I try not to provide you with opinion pieces because without actual evidence to support the claims....or the discussion, they are pointless. I try to provide actual evidence to support my claim...in the case of data tampering with the temperature record...I have shown the data from the agencies in question...their own data shows tampering...I am just pointing out what their own data shows.
Typical for the person who has no basis for his argument save for ridicule.
And precisely what you are guilty of...you provide opinion pieces in lieu of actual evidence...I, on the other hand have provided actual data. When I ridicule you, it is because you are unable to provide actual data in support of your position...you can not say the same about me...For example...regarding the claims of catastrophic sea level rise...I provided data from NASA from 1980 regarding sea level increase...
And data from 20 years later in which the data from the past had been systematically eradicated....do you believe that we didn't know how to read tide gages in 1980 and the data just needed to be changed?
That isn't an opinion piece which assumes a basic hypothesis to be true...that is evidence that government agencies are tampering with data which is then used to support a claim...and political action. The scientific method demands an answer to the questions....faith simply accepts and believes the basic hypothesis to be true... Which of us actually has no basis for his ridicule?
What I do know is this. Salmon runs are down, as are the number of cod, halibut, etc.
I know those things to...but I don't believe climate change is the problem...and I know that they can't be addressed so long as the climate change scam is sucking all the air out of the room and the treasure from the coffers.
Walruses in the Arctic are starving due to the lack of ice floes for them to hunt from.
Did walruses die during the previous warm periods when the ice was surely even less than today?..and do you actually know that walruses are starving or are you simply accepting that the basic hypothesis is true from the same sort of people who lied and said that the polar bear numbers were decreasing dramatically while in fact, they are growing.
Coral reefs are dying, and the small fish that gathered there are disappearing thus other sea creatures are dying off. In the rain forests trees are being cut down at a massive rate causing the extinction of creature we know nothing about not to mention the plant life. Streams I used to be able to drink from are now undrinkable die to pollution from farms, manufacturing plants, etc. I know that the ice on Greenland is melting at a rapid rate due to the collection of ash, and other pollutants, causing the surface to attract heat, nor reflect it.
Any of that actually attributable to climate change...or are they the result of problems with industry and land use that could actually be address and progress made if climate change were not sucking all the air from the room and all the treasure from the coffers?
There are many things I know based on observation, not on your blind acceptance of out of date science. Of course, you, like the Lemming, will just fall over the cliff never knowing what happened, or why.
But you don't seem to be able to separate them from the climate change scam and see them as problems that aren't going to be addressed till the climate change hoax is put to bed.