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I’ve found that, on the whole, science doesn’t lie to me. Science is like that irritating relation at the dinner party who tells you shitty ‘interesting facts’ when you really just want to drown your sorrows in brandy-soaked fruitcake. But you can still trust Science, because Science generally knows what the hell it’s talking about. And yeah, sometimes Science might be wrong. But, along the way, science sorts itself out via this little thing I like to call ‘peer review’ and ‘experiment validity’. Mmm. Tasty.

So, to drop the metaphor, I basically get the funny feeling that when a whole lot of people working independently reach the same conclusion it’s more than likely to be reasonably accurate. And if you don’t agree with me, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re a dirty communist.

Of course, when along the way we start to see some results that might have an impact politically people get all antsy in their pantsy about it (see: evolution). And a big one that’s going on right now is the issue of climate change.

So, basically today I’m going to focus on the people who believe that climate change is either not happening/incredibly unlikely to happen. In fact, all those people who don’t think we should bother doing anything about it. Essentially this post is just going to be one big bitchslap, which I understand you can do across the internet nowadays.

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Don’t get me wrong, though – I don’t ever want to stifle scientific debate (more…)