Scientists have been known to be wrong in the past.
Again, true. But how has scientific error been discovered and corrected? In all cases, this has been accomplish through better science.
So to the deniers, I have this challenge: present your "better science" if you have it. So far, silence.
In the meantime, the scientific community remains permanently open to well-founded contrary evidence. As we noted above (re: "falsifiability"), that is how science works.
Conclusion:
The political, economic and media opposition to scientific research, as exemplified in the climate change debate, is not new. We have seen it before: acid rain, cigarettes and cancer, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," aerosols and ozone, as Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway have documented in their outstanding book, Merchants of Doubt.
Corporate propaganda is powerful, but it is not omnipotent. In all these cases, the weight of scientific evidence eventually prevailed. But this time, we can't wait for "eventual" vindication. The findings of the IPCC and of those thousands of climate scientists portend unimaginable horrors., unless the global community of nations and their scientists act immediately and decisively.
"Eventual" vindication of their warnings will be too late.
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