tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post4633014110183563262..comments2024-03-26T17:03:03.877+00:00Comments on Climate Lessons: A parent reacts to his children's 'flimsy', 'one-sided' education on global warming.JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-55871124981236289872014-04-10T20:50:55.400+01:002014-04-10T20:50:55.400+01:00Thanks Anonymous, I agree that testable prediction...Thanks Anonymous, I agree that testable predictions are a hallmark of good science, especially when theories are discarded when refuted by observations! I sympathise with your other concerns. There is so much that is downright unsatisfactory.JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-85408783699091705602014-04-08T07:10:14.035+01:002014-04-08T07:10:14.035+01:00More to the point, science is empirical. If you a...More to the point, science is empirical. If you aren't making testable predictions, what you have isn't science, it's opinion.<br /><br />The envirowacko mob mostly takes great, great care to avoid formulating any of their opinions in a falsifiable manner or making a testable prediction, just as Thomas Aquinas did, and for all the same reasons. When they do make testable predictions, such as "the Earth's polar ice caps will have completely melted by 2011 and the ocean levels will rise sixty meters," they are predictably, uniformly, comically wrong every single time, in every instance.<br /><br />...also, the claim of a one degree Fahrenheit rise in global temperatures over the course of the Twentieth Century is dubious in the extreme. We don't know what the Earth's temperature is today. We don't know how to measure it. Is it ocean temperatures at the surface? Is it air temperatures at the surface? Where at the surface? How would you begin to measure it? Please note that the detailed satellite data from which one might begin to make any kind of analysis doesn't exist prior to the 1980s. We don't know what the Earth's temperature is today, nor do we have any idea what it was in 2000, or 1900, or 1800.<br /><br />The environmentalists are silly little men, but they want power. They have concocted this narrative in which the white race has sinned against Gaia by building cities and putting men on the moon instead of sitting around in mud huts scratching our arses, and we are past due for a visit from Nemesis to punish us for our Hubris and for our original sin. And the news and entertainment media hard-sell this to us, night and day, day and night. To live in the West in the early Twenty-First Century is to swim in a sea of agitprop, a miasma of calculated lies. Speaking truth to such people, reminding them of something as simple and basic as the definitions of the terms of the scientific method, elicits from them not apologies for having erred, but an unending torrent of hatred and abuse--and you will be hounded out of the public square, drowned out by screams of feigned outrage, and it will be you, and not the capering fools who have yet to make a prediction that is borne out by the facts, whose name will become common anathema.<br /><br />"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com