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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Is skepticism a bad thing? Without it we would continue believing the world is flat, at the center of the universe.
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True skepticism is a good thing. The problem here is that the climate "skeptics" want us to go on believing that the world is flat, and ignoring all that pesky science that says it's round.
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Meteorologists have a very difficult time predicting just what the local weather will do tomorrow, so skepticism of predictions for the entire world over the course of hundreds of years is reasonable.
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Only if you a) don't have a clue about the science involved; and b) refuse to learn. We might, by exactly the same logic, claim that because the roll of any one die is very difficult to predict, the house doesn't have the edge in craps, yet somehow casinos still make a profit :-)