ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Heliocentrism, Inductive Reasoning
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*conflict between how scientists communicate and how politicians communicate when discussing environmental issues. Develop understanding of what science is and what it is now. An appreciation of the holistic and integrative approach on environmental science. Because there are some facts and numbers that environmental science cannot attain and provide to politicians (who want numbers) Many ways to approach knowledge and understanding of the world. Science uses an explicit way to try to understand the world. Science tries to explain how things work studying only natural causes. Doesn"t deal with things that don"t have the potential to be observed. Essence is change in ideas it evolves we build upon knowledge in hopes to better understand how the world works. If generalizations cannot be tested, then now a science statement can never provide absolute proof! Scientists should never say: i"m absolutely sure climate change is occurring. Draw conclusions(then go back and test the hypotheses again or form a new hypothesis)
