The great tragedy of science: a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.
That was old science, back before Global Warming™ when there was something called the scientific method.
Basically you would construct a hypothesis and then come up with an experiment to test your hypothesis. Your hypothesis would be either supported or disproved based on empirical and measurable evidence. It was all very tedious.
Now, thanks to the wise Nobel Prize Winner Algore, scientific theories are established based on the consensus of people collecting government grants.
You construct a hypothesis, collect a government grant to study it, tell all your friends about it so that they can collect government grants to study it, and then all vote on whether you should all continue to collect government grants. If most of you agree that you should continue to collect government grants, then the science is settled.