Al Gore says, “the debate is over.”

Aside from being dangerous, the statement is patently false. As a science teacher, the debate itself  is what I try to teach students. Naysayers among the science community are starting to object to the rush to create new scientific law. Global warming is essentially a theory. In today’s American Thinker, James Lewis pens a wonderful paragraph that describes science’s reality. Its one I will share with my students:

 

What most people don’t know is that real science is a giant debating society, filled with skeptics. It is only mature science that is stable and agreed-upon. But mature science comes only after centuries of cumulative evidence, and constant, heated debate. It took 20 centuries after the planets were observed in the night sky, before Newton and Copernicus settled the nature of the solar system. Einstein’s Relativity Theory happened three centuries afterwards, and even in his own lifetime, part of Einstein’s universe was overthrown by Quantum Mechanics, which Einstein fought all his life. (He was wrong on that).

Be skeptical folks whn it comes to science.