# Is global warming falsifiable?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-global-warming-falsifiable/687786/514 "2014-10-24T22:18:01Z")

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> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> I am going to have to work on my irony.

Probably true. A[ul]  
[/ul]mong your evasions, misrepresentations of your opponents’ positions, and general refusal to post anything without being snide, (and, usually, wrong) your ability to actually convey irony is seriously lacking.

> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> No, but it’s effective at getting the point across. (that was another attempt at irony)

Another failed attempt, given the way that you have been utter ly ineffective in making an actual point, relying on simplistic caricatures to identify what you claim are examples of “falsifiability” while ignoring or dismissing those posts that disprove your claims.  
In fact, while you might possibly believe yourself to have a point, your reversals and dances around the topic are beginning to lead me to believe that your “point” has more to do with keeping this thread active than actually engaging in honest debate.

> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> 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)
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> 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)
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> In the same tabloid, same concept.
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> What is true? Deciding in advance, so that you accept one story, but question the other, isn’t scientific, or fighting ignorance.

Silly strawman arguments further demonstrate that you are doing nothing but playing games. No one has made any claim to “believe” either story and your implication that posters in this thread would make up their minds to believe one or the other without other outside references is nothing more than you creating an imaginary scenario for you to mock while pretending that posters had done what you claimed.

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