Gregory's ServerSpain’s Doñana National Park dries up completely https://english.elpais.com/spain/2022-09-06/spains-donana-national-park-dries-up-completely.html
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@yogthos (BTW, yes I'm aware that literally everything in science is a theory because by definition, you can't 100% prove the mechanism using only observations. But that's not how the general public uses that word. When they hear the theories of things like evolution and climate change, they think of, like, fan theories on an anime or something, not the INCREDIBLY rigorously observed and tested mechanism that has basically no contradictions that we know of.) @yogthos (Seriously. Gravity is a theory. Newtonian motion is a theory (and wrong btw, it's been superseded by relativity, the only reason we still use it is because at human scales, its error is imperceptible and the math is so much easier). Bears shitting in the woods is a theory. A theory is technically the highest level of rigor in science, like, we're almost fucking certain because we've found no evidence contradicting it and a mountain of evidence supporting it.) @AgreeableLandscape and that's the problem with layman understanding of science people have. Something being a theory doesn't mean we don't have high confidence in it. Incidentally, this is a great essay on the subject https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html @yogthos @AgreeableLandscape Thanks for sharing the essay. |
@yogthos "But climate change is just a theory!"