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Ask for the impossible (proving a prediction in the future) then condemn them for not doing it. You would have us do nothing until the dire predictions are proven true beyond doubt.
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Mark, can you not read??? I did not say do nothing and I said elsewhere in this thread what we should do.

Now to your 1st point. Yes, the models are unverifyable. Deal with it. But worse yet and the killer is that time and again 'models' are created and WHOOPS! some new significant factor aises that the existing models did not incorparate but no problemo, they just write up another model and get similar results.

I'll give you a less controversial example, a space example. Sagan et. al. had all these nice computer models simulating other solar systems. Scientific American et. al. published these for years. But WHOOPS suddenly we find out that stuff like Hot Jupiters exist in numbers. No problem, now all the models 'predict' Hot Jupiters. Ask yourself, what remaining surprizes do these 'just so' models fail to predict? Hmmmm

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