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Old 08-15-2007, 05:26 PM
A.Hidalgo A.Hidalgo is offline
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Originally Posted by Rafael Rothschild View Post
All the claims about human activities being responsible for Global Warming are only theories.
Perhaps looking up the scientific meaning of what a theory is may be helpful in clearing up some things.

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Theory
A scientific theory is an established and experimentally verified fact or collection of facts about the world. Unlike the everyday use of the word theory, it is not an unproved idea, or just some theoretical speculation. The latter meaning of a 'theory' in science is called a hypothesis.
Glossary of scientific terms