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My field has also a pretty stringent definition of "cause". I am an engineer, if something is wrong we try to find the root cause. I know we are just arguing over semantics here, but if micro tumors...

that's fine, man, it's all cool :) You just came across as saying that it is all bullsheise, which is the typical reaction of people nowadays. It is irritating, that's all.

Of course there will be...

adoc, my defeatist friend, you are treating all the sciences of ecology/meteorology/geology/chemistry as if it was one simple science. It is like saying that since a Medical Doctor who specializes in...

Yeah, that there are always some wackos who will disagree with the consensus. Those who don't want to believe will listen to them.

Same as the scientists who are trying to disprove that smoking...

I knew the "ooh, but how long have you been collecting data" argument was going to pop up again. Compare these past years to 15 years ago, we didn't have:

1) heat waves in Europe every summer
2)...

Denying the changing of the climate right in front of you eyes, is like sitting on an open fire and thinking: "I do not have enough data to know whether this pain will last much longer or not, or...