Essay: The provisional nature of science and the possibility that man-made global warming will not happen. What will happen if it doesn't happen? A prediction.
The 1970s was the peak of various scientists believing in the global cooling hypothesis.
The blogger article Climate Change Is Inevitable says:
- But on the looming issue of global climate change, there are few prospects for a successful short-term response.
- We do not currently possess the material capacities, let alone the social capacities, to adequately respond to the most immediate climatological crisis: carbon dioxide emissions. Unless there is an unprecedented shift towards widespread and rapid adoption of nuclear power, the reduction in carbon emissions at best is a long, slow taper. Even with the rollout of a full nuclear power grid, it would take time to build up electric car fleets, and replace fossil fuels in airplanes, shipping, and industry. The COVID pandemic, a far smaller and more easily solvable crisis, has already revealed the extent of political sloth and dysfunction, erased generational economic gains, and accelerated ideological conflict. In the very long-run, climate change is not even a single event. It is a crisis of crises that will play out in many different ways in different places and times. Its cumulative effects will be far greater than any recent pandemic, but not experienced in a singular way. Some may take lifetimes to fully unfold. But unfold, they will.
- The world’s major governments lack the will to institute the types of reforms that would be required to achieve net neutral carbon emissions."[3]
How fast will the world's countries and developed countries adopt nuclear power? The next generation of nuclear reactors is expected to roll out soon.[4]
And given the provisional nature of science (overturned hypotheses/theories, scientific fraud, etc.), there is a possibility that man-made global warming and/or its theorized effects will not happen.
What will happen if man-made global warming and/or its theorized effects do not happen?
Will it shake some science fetishists worshipful faith in scientific paradigms and help them better understand the limitations of science (scientists being errant concerning predictions about the future and speculations about the very distant past, etc.)?
Since the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) promotes man-made climate change theory and evolutionism, if man-made global warming and/or its theorized effects does not happen, will this hurt evolutionists promotion of evolutionism?
If the scientific consensus is wrong yet another time, will this shake the faith that science fetishists have in the scientific consensus? By the way, science is based on the careful analysis of empirical data, well-designed experiments and replicable experiments - not popularity contests among scientists!
When will we know if the climatologists advocating the global warming theory are absolutely right through their more grimmer predictions coming true or failing to come true? The U.N. in 2019 said by about 2031 the threshold would be reached for some of the grimmer things to potentially unfold.[5]
On behalf of all biblical creationists, if man-made global warming and/or its theorized effects do not happen, I hereby predict that young earth creationists will take yet another victory lap around the creation-evolution debate track! See also: Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation and Creation vs. evolution debates.
"People of low standing are only breath, and people of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up. Together they are lighter than breath." - Psalm 62:9
"This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength...". - Jeremiah 17:5
"But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, because He knew all people, and because He did not need anyone to testify about mankind, for He Himself knew what was in mankind." - John 2: 24-25
Two messages to all evolutionists
See also: Evolution and 15 questions for evolutionists
