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It garnered more social,philosophical and political acceptance than scientific.
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I follow the science part of climate change a bit and I think this is pretty much a spot-on description of what's happening. We take the parts that are agreed upon as the leaping-off point for wild armageddon, for which there isn't scientific consensus. That's actually very unscientific of us. But we love it.
Humans predict the end of the world! It's just what we do.
Number of end-of-the-world predictions in history: 1,000,000,000s
Number that came true: 0