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Thu 01 Jan 2010Cold 'snap' does not undo climate trends
We need to get beyond anecdotal reasoning about the weather and look at the proven global warming
WHO COULD possibly argue with common sense? Scientists are, however, wary of its limitations, and with good reason. Albert Einstein famously dismissed common sense as “the collection of prejudices acquired by the age 18”. For centuries, scientists have risked ridicule, ruin and worse when propounding theories that threatened established thought. The German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912. Common sense, however, tells us continents can’t just drift around. It took nearly half a century for this scientific fact to be widely accepted.
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