Day.Old.Pizza wrote:
Although it has been a long, long time since I attended school, I seem to remember that for something to be scientifically proven to occur, anyone testing the premise that Global Warming is occurring would get the same answer...that it is, in fact, getting warmer. To say scientists "broadly" agree indicates to me that not everyone testing the premise is coming to that conclusion. Therefore, for now, it is not "scientifically" proven,but only a commonly held belief
Indeed, it has been a very long time, and some ideas seem to have been confused in the intervening time. The process of science does not prove anything. Rather, it proposes hypotheses that are to be disproven. After sufficient failures to disprove a hypothesis the consensus will be that it is now a theory, which is a strong statement that the data are consistent with a particular interpretation. Still not, nor ever, proven.