edited 7/27/2011
We will eventually know the answer
We will eventually know the answer
Eventually the argument about Anthropogenic Global Warming will be settled and become common knowledge. It will not, however, be settled soon, or by those frustrated scientists demanding that the conversation cease. It will be settled when scientists on all sides of the argument arrive at the same conclusion from different research and directions of inquiry. At that point it will all seem to have been obvious.
Scientific results that are replicable, reputable, transparent, open to challenge, empirically defended, characteristics lacking in the current argument, will pile up in the corner of the eventual winning viewpoint.