--- Lisa & Ian Murray <seamus at accessone.com> wrote: >
> JH
> >>Not I but Guardian environment
> correspondent John Vidal writes, anthropogenic
> global warming is an
> unproveable hypothesis.
> ********
>
> How does he prove it's unproveable? He seems to be
> caught in reflexive
> tangle, no?
He probably means it's unproveable in the very weak, Popperian sense in which relativity, heliocentrism and continental drift are "unproveable". He certainly believes it's true, or at least he writes as if he does.
dd
>
> Ian
>
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