Climate Change Deniers Missed the Twentieth Century

   I have recently noticed that some of the arguments that the Global Warming Deniers (otherwise known as Flat Earthers) have been making are purely Rationalist ( see earlier post) in nature.  Please note that Rationalism is a school of philosophy opposed to Empiricism. Rationalism states that no truth can be derived from observation of the physical world, but all truth must come from self-evident a priori  arguments.  The prime example of rationalism is Euclidean Geometry.  Euclidean Geometry works just fine for laying out a football field, but fails miserably on atomic scales, or on astronomical scales. Empiricism says that truth comes from observed reality. Prime examples are the General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. A great deal of modern Physics has been devoted to proving or disproving Relativity.  So far, it works perfectly
   One other of the great intellectual accomplishments of the 20th Century was Goedel's proof, which put the final nail in the coffin of Rationalism by showing that any Rationalist system will always be self-contradictory. Apparently Deniers failed to follow the intellectual achievments of the 20th century