"Reasearch operates past the edge of the known."

p. 193.

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The goal is "The pursuit of reliable knowledge."

Spencer Weart, p. 195, The Discovery of Global Warming.

 

Taking knowledge "a step forward."

"You cannot point to a single observation or model that convinced everyone about anything."

p. 194.

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This process of connecting

"gives a clearer picture of what scientists could see at the time."

p. 194

Behind the method lies?

"The integrity of telling the truth is important, but it is not enough...they [scientists] regulalrly fool themselves."

1/4 = .25 or a quarter

1/5 = .2 or a quintile

Could we function without decimals -- yes; but could we think without decimals? Not as well as we now think.

Because global warming is a statistical problem, a scientific certainty shrouded in atmospheric, oceanographic, and ecological uncertainty and a set of real social unknowns.

The importance of words, terminology and vision.

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Rest of the book

 

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