# Is global warming falsifiable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 6, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-global-warming-falsifiable/687786 "2014-05-06T07:30:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 503
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-global-warming-falsifiable/687786/503 "2014-10-24T15:52:44Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Actually, in those posts, you pretended that the theory could not be falsified I am going to have to work on my irony. “the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.” > [@tomndebb](#): > > and made snide claims, thinly veiled, that it was not science. I didn’t think it was veiled at all. > [@tomndebb](#): > > Claims that you have said one thing while pointing to your own statements that show you saying the contrary is not persuasive. No, but it’s effective at getting the point across. (that was another attempt at irony) Here’s an article. [Arctic ice cap is in a ‘death spiral’, claims leading academic](http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/513544/Arctic-ice-cap-death-spiral) How do you know if that is true? It’s in some British tabloid. Right? It’s sensationalism, to get headlines. Here is another one. [Climate change PROVED to be ‘nothing but a lie’, claims top meteorologist](http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/526191/Climate-change-is-a-lie-global-warming-not-real-claims-weather-channel-founder) In the same tabloid, same concept. What is true? Deciding in advance, so that you accept one story, but question the other, isn’t scientific, or fighting ignorance. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-global-warming-falsifiable/687786)._