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>>9295396

Its an epistemic problem. Everything you know about climate science is something you heard.

Lets look at each claim philosophically:
> the earth is warming.
This is hard to tell, but certainly possible, with careful measurement and unbiased sampling.
> the earth will continue warming and some natural process won't adjust.
The earth is very good at regulating its temperature and processes, this seems difficult to know.
> Earth's warming is caused by CO2.
Establishing casual relationships beyond statistical correlations is very difficult.
> Earth's warming will be bad.
Impossible to know this. Too many variables like when biologist try and balance some animal in an ecology.
> We can stop Earth's warming be mediating certain activities.
How do we know this?
Nothing involving so many variables is so cut and dry which is why economists can't predict anything, geologists can't agree on anything, etc. There are probably only a handful of people in the world with enough first hand knowledge to actually have an informed opinion that wasn't just someones word for it.


> the earth is warming and is caused by CO2.
This i