Hi, nice article on Global warming. I'm responding to it now :)

I am Eric Chua, a Singaporean currently residing in Australia, I am also an author on this issue and you can find my articles on my website.
www.outerheavens.blogspot.com

I have a proposal on solving Global Warming that is pending for publishing if it gets enough votes, you can read the proposal at the link below and please do vote if you like it.

http://www.changethis.com/proposals/918

It's about using the Secret of the Law of Attraction to gather people
to help solve the Global Warming Issue. However, this proposal can
only be published if it gets enough votes.

Please do help spread the word around. Thanks!

Regards,
Eric Chua
www.outerheavens.blogspot.com

I am not sure if I agree with your assertions.

While it is valid to teach evolution and global warming as theories, they must be described as theories not fact. The goal of schools in this area should be about the scientific method: hypothesis and then test. I remember many "theories" that were taught in my primary years (a long time ago) that were since proven to not be fact.

Certain theories have withstood the test of time and it is likely that they will never be disproven. A simple walk through http://www.globalwarming-factorfiction.com will show that Global Warming is not in that league. There a hundreds of well credentialed scientists that question many of the conclusions of the IPCC.

Schools should teach as theory - not fact.

Thanks for your response. Maybe I wasn't clear, but I'm saying exactly what you are - that it should be taught as a theory. What I'm saying, however, is that the word "theory" is being misused by many as describing something that could very well be not true. A theory, before it is taught as scientific standard, is held up to many tests and quite a lot of time before it is taught that way. Scientific theories can often not be disproven, so the question basically boils down to how long a theory should withstand the tests of time and inquiry until they can be taught seriously. Both evolution and global warming, in my opinion, and in the opinion of school systems and most of the scientific community, have long ago reached that point.

Theory:

In common usage, people often use the word theory to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements that would be true independently of what people think about them.

In science, a theory is a mathematical description, a logical explanation, a verified hypothesis, or a proven model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.