Inference Towards the Best Explanation: Reflections on the Issue of Climate Change

摘要: Science is an organized enterprise of inquiry which tries to tie together multiple strands evidence craft coherent explanations for disparate patterns in the natural world. Philosophers call this “inference towards best explanation”. Such inferences at times depend upon detailed quantitative models, but one can rely confluence qualitative evidence. Humans are having unquestionable influences many aspects earth system present, on land, freshwater systems, and indeed ocean, including devastating impacts biodiversity. There world present – shrinking glaciers, shifting seasonal species’ life histories, altered spatial distributions point signal climate change, independent details models. Yet, there other factors play, often confounding clear assessment specific role change observed changes wor...