IDMT_BC024An econ major. What a surprise. Did you ever stop to think that maybe you know as much about ecology as an art history major knows about economics?
And ecology is real, unlike economics.... "Que. for social science babble/ but this is the human world we live in! It's real because it provides us with goods! response."
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but it only takes a few relatively small changes for life to get very, very uncomfortable for the vast majority of humanity.
Of fucking course the theory of global warming is open to testing! It's being tested every day in hundreds of ways by thousands of scientists, using methods that are far more rigorous and accurate than anything that will ever employed by economists.
And we know the effects that past climate cycles have had, from a variety of methods. Again I will never understand why climate change skeptics trumpet that "the Earth has had wide fluctuations in temperature before!" That's what the theory is, to a large degree, based on! That's where the estimations of the effects of a rise in global temperature come from, to say the least.
You missed my point entirely. "Climate scientists" (not ecologists) are trying to impose severe economic policy using inconclusive science as a basis. Which would mean that an economics background is quite applicable, wouldn't you agree? There science is paid for by political interests that are skewed towards receiving a certain outcome. Using cherry-picked data to make convenient conclusions is something that is seen quite ofter in the field of economics as well(more so since the full return of neo-Keynesianism).
This is proven just by the mere name "Climate change". But I thought it was "global warming"? Climate scientists are keen to include data that agrees with their conclusions, and discard all data that refutes it. This is not good science, and the reason people have lost interest. After an overwhelming amount of data suggested that the world was in fact not warming, they just change the name slightly so that they can never be wrong, I mean how can you possibly deny the climate is "changing"?
Now do I think all the research is wrong? No. I think if the research was not so tainted by politics and full-scale efforts to destroy the economic systems of western societies, then it would be much more valid. However, what we have are scientific theories that are treated as gospel by supporters in order to impose economic eco-fascism.
