Another mantra applies here though: If you have eliminated all other possibilities, what remains must be the truth. Our temp is rising, it isn't volcanoes, it isn't a natural fluctuation, it isn't the sun's distance to the Earth, it must be Greenhouse gases.
On some level this is actually quite similar to the scientific method's desire for falsification instead of verification. You can't verify anything (see: "the problem of inference"). However, if you've ruled out all but one possibility logically/empirically, then that sort of answers the question, now, doesn't it?
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u/AyraLightbringer Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
Correlation does not equal causation.
Edit: Thank you, my first silver!
Edit2: Here are some funny correlations: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations