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"Real science would be predicting the chill before it happened and explaining how it relates to global warming."

I have a degree in Geology and tend to think that, even though I cannot predict an earthquake, I did learn a real science:)

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Yes, but given the initial parameters of the earth quake you know nothing about you can predict various other parameters of the quake with pretty good accuracy. The same isn't true for meteorology: giving some initial state isn't sufficient to predict anything beyond a very short-term time period.

EDIT: err, this argument is rather weak. I shouldn't have used the phrase "real science", that was a dumb mistake on my part.

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