What Would be a Valid and FINAL Test of Anthropocentric Global Warming (AGW)?

[JimBowie1958]

AGW is not merely the theory that the world is warming, but that human beings are causing it by burning too much carbon based matter and producing too much CO2.

But temperatures don't always go up and we have seen record cooling temps as well in various parts of the globe, so what would be a valid and FINAL test that AGW is FALSE?

 

[alang1216]

If you're looking for definative proof either way, you're out of luck. We can't do a scientific study with controls since there is only one earth. The only option we have is to collect as much data as possible and refine our climatic models. Exactly what we are doing. We'll get closer and closer to certainty but we'll never get there.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

When Florida's underwater probably. Given how resistant to God not actually existing people are, many seem to prefer pretty lies, to ugly truths.

 

[JimBowie1958]

If you're looking for definative proof either way, you're out of luck. We can't do a scientific study with controls since there is only one earth. The only option we have is to collect as much data as possible and refine our climatic models. Exactly what we are doing. We'll get closer and closer to certainty but we'll never get there.

So, no matter what happens, one cannot disprove AGW?

Seriously?

You call that science?

 

[JimBowie1958]

When Florida's underwater probably. Given how resistant to God not actually existing people are, many seem to prefer pretty lies, to ugly truths.

Florida under water would disprove AGW?

How would that work exactly?

 

[alang1216]

If you're looking for definative proof either way, you're out of luck. We can't do a scientific study with controls since there is only one earth. The only option we have is to collect as much data as possible and refine our climatic models. Exactly what we are doing. We'll get closer and closer to certainty but we'll never get there.

So, no matter what happens, one cannot disprove AGW?

Seriously?

You call that science?

Yes, just like you can't prove AGW, you can't disprove it. You can look at which theory best fits the evidence but the only way to prove anything to have a control earth to experiment on.