Climate Policy

[--Pete]

Hi,

The future isn't predictable in that way, true. But we would have been foolish physicists indeed to discard Newton before Einstein, on the assumption that surely there must be some better future theory. It's only when the new theory exists, and proves to be better than the previous one, that we can shift our understanding to it. Trying to pre-empt the system, rejecting current explanations without any particularily promising replacement theory, seems to be a poor way to understand science, especially for the layman.

Oh, yeah. But I was just pointing out the unfairness of your request.;)

BTW -- all scientific theories are wrong: the map is not the terrain.

--Pete