Climate change has been a very controversial topic in both recent history and dating back to the early 1900’s. Scientists have tried to uncover evidence of past climates through clues in nature, the Earth, and ice. With a huge variance of ideas and innate feelings of disbelief, it has been a hard task to convince the general population of abrupt climate change. Looking back at decades of experiments and gauging the public’s attitude of acceptance towards this ideal gives a timeline of what climate change has really meant to the world. Introducing an STS viewpoint to a once purely scientific debate can explain the workings of our society in relation to this controversial idea and can interpret how it has evolved over time. More specifically, …show more content…
Kuhn denied that there was any “progress toward anything.” (Weinberg) Basically, there is no “inevitable outcome” or any “progress toward an absolute truth.” Kuhn took a skeptical approach to science that scientists despised, but those in the social sciences adored. In terms of climate change, skeptics say that the progress that is being made has to be towards a more correct truth. The more data processed about the past, the better models that are able to be structured to predict the future climates. Even in normal science, where scientists process current weather patterns that fit to the current models, they are able to tweak their algorithm along with the data. Kuhn could argue, by province of his Chapter X, that after each revolution, “scientists work in a different world.” (Godfrey-Smith pg 96) Although the revolution may have produced a better representation, it also changed the scientists’ understanding it. In addition, when comparing “better” vs. “closer to an absolute truth”, he draws to evolution saying during the dinosaur extinction, mammals may have been “better” but their existence may not have been