Is climate change real?

The climate and nature are just too big for us to understand

Question: Is climate change real?
Position‹3 of 3: We can't know for sure if climate change is real
Argument: The climate and nature are just too big for us to understand

We can't really know for sure what is happening with climate change because the climate and earth systems are too complex for us to understand.

The argument

We can’t truly say if climate change is real or not because nature is so diverse and facts about it change over time. Scientists haven’t explored all the depths of the oceans and there are even forests that haven’t been fully explored.

Premises

[P1]Proponents of this view hold that nature is so vast and diverse — with unexplored ocean depths and forests — that human knowledge of it remains incomplete. [P2] Because facts about such a large, under-explored system change over time, they argue we cannot be certain of claims made about it. [C] Therefore, on this argument, we can't know for sure whether climate change is real.

Counter-arguments

Just because there’s things about nature that science doesn’t know, doesn’t mean that what scientists know now is false. There are many things that scientists have determined about nature that indicate that climate change is real, for example, the depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Although science doesn’t know everything about nature, it doesn’t mean science is ignorant about everything concerning nature.