01-17-23, 03:55 PM
William M. Briggs
Why You Don’t Have To Worry About Climate Change: Multiplication Of Uncertainties
BY BRIGGS ON JUNE 6, 2022
Excerpt:
I once did a talk on this subject at Spain’s Royal Institute of Science during the first global warming panic, but I did a lousy job.
Now, at the time of our second global warming panic (the coronadoom panic waning and needing replacement), I shall try again.
Here is how The Science happens; in particular, how vast over-certainties are generated yet still become “the debate is over”. We’ll use global warming as our example, but this works for any The Science.
Let’s start with a typical The Science pronouncement: “Because of the climate crisis, coffee production in Africa will decrease, which is why our political solutions need to be put in place.”
There are hundreds, even thousands, of statements like this, provided by an army of academics and Experts. They are characterized easily: everything bad will wax because of “climate change” and everything good will wane; good coming from “climate change” is impossible; only bad can arise.
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We suffer from toleration of many would-be planetary saviors.
Why You Don’t Have To Worry About Climate Change: Multiplication Of Uncertainties
BY BRIGGS ON JUNE 6, 2022
Excerpt:
I once did a talk on this subject at Spain’s Royal Institute of Science during the first global warming panic, but I did a lousy job.
Now, at the time of our second global warming panic (the coronadoom panic waning and needing replacement), I shall try again.
Here is how The Science happens; in particular, how vast over-certainties are generated yet still become “the debate is over”. We’ll use global warming as our example, but this works for any The Science.
Let’s start with a typical The Science pronouncement: “Because of the climate crisis, coffee production in Africa will decrease, which is why our political solutions need to be put in place.”
There are hundreds, even thousands, of statements like this, provided by an army of academics and Experts. They are characterized easily: everything bad will wax because of “climate change” and everything good will wane; good coming from “climate change” is impossible; only bad can arise.
LINK
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We suffer from toleration of many would-be planetary saviors.
“A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific.” – Karl Popper
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