But there's the rub: they try to do just that. And as long as they can keep a critical mass from forcing them to address those questions, they seem perfectly content to continue ignoring them.
Kinda muddies the whole "quest for truth" they like to project.
It turns them into a sort of exclusive priesthood, something which I thought was a “damnable” feature of “religion.”
Part of it is how the attempts to prognosticate on short term climate changes have been carried out. They are trying to solve for more variables than they have equations, and the older, more cautious breed of scientist would tell them not to undertake this fool’s errand, but they undertake it anyhow.
Saying we don’t know, can’t know now or may never know the answer is not the same as ignoring the question. The “quest for truth” has to be based on what can be proven.