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Old May 5th 16, 02:51 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Climate change could cause mass exodus by mid century

On Thu, 5 May 2016 05:24:11 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:

On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 3:37:51 AM UTC-6, SlurpieMcDoublegulp wrote:

Accepting established science is not political. It's just data and reason.


But the "established science" is regularly overturned by new thinking and
new instrumentation.


Actually, major scientific theories are rarely overturned. It's been a
long time since that's happened. Maybe never for any theory that was
robustly supported by evidence.