A guy is going to start a company. He gathers an engineer, lawyer and accountant. He asks each of them only one question in separate interviews: How much is 2 + 2? The engineer answers with "absolutely it can only be 4". The attorney says "its 4 but I can argue that it is 5". The accountant closed the door pulls down the shades and says "how much do you want it to be"? I offer this story not to denigrate any profession but to illustrate the human experience
Experts have manipulated data/facts forever and or been so wrong on issues from the evolution of mankind to Y2K to health scares about food or a population explosion that would not been able to sustain itself, to the topic of discussion here ....but here we are
So the average Joe like me has witnessed so many of these "scientist now believe" or "chicken little stories" that the scientific/ expert communities have loss credibility especially when they see what nature can do and yet mankind still survives. And not to be unkind to this community the undertaking is just too vast stretching over millions and millions of years with so many variables some known and many unknowns that to make such prediction it difficult but to make such absolute claims either strong belief or conceit. No i am not saying its impossible I am only saying it should be done with "certainty as we know it now or a qualified opinion/ always unsettled
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