[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> [Platt]
> Be that as it may, it seems to me your view amounts to: "In the end 
> we know that we can know nothing, even though for practical purposes 
> we fool ourselves into thinking we can." Am I wrong?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Depends on your definition of "know". By all pragmatic counts, we 
> certainly can "know" things. And this isn't "fooling ourselves", its 
> just a recognition that this is as good as it gets. Its like saying, 
> we can get to 99.9999999999999.... % certainty, but we can never, by 
> virtue of the game, reach 100%. Is that last .00000000000000001% a 
> big deal? No, it is neither something we should deliberately ignore, 
> or something we should dwell on incessantly. It just _is_.

And that's an absolute fact. Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-)


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