Has global warming been proven

Answer 1

It depends on who you listen to, and what standards of "proof" you have.

I say this because, like many other controversial issues, there will be people who insist that global warming is FACT! But there are also people on the other side who insist that it ABSOLUTELY CANNOT EXIST!

No, global warming has not been proven, as you would prove the existence of gravity or other laws of nature. But neither has it been disproven, at least not definitively. It is a theory, no more, and no less, like the Big Bang theory, or postulates some of us learned in math class.

Very little scientific research ever reaches the point of 'proof'. Thus, we have the Theory of Gravity', the Theory of Relativity' and so on. In each case, as with global warming, scientists simply reach a consensus on what is considered almost certain, and then allow future scientists to expand on, amend or, occasionally, replace the theory. Australia's Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, says that science is not always perfect and interpretations are not always unanimously agreed, but good science will increase probability through the weight of evidence from "possible" to " beyond reasonable doubt". He says that this is the position now with global warming.