[Windcatcher]

The anti-capitalist Left (that's what this is *really* about) keeps screaming, "Consensus! Consensus! Consensus!" when attempting to debunk anyone who disagrees with them. Well, let's take a look at history:

In the late 19th century, there was widespread consensus that, at last, the Universe was fully understood. The behavior of nearly every single element could be predicted, Newtonian mechanics could predict the motions of the planets to surprising accuracy, and nearly the entire scientific community had a consensus that all would be discovered with only some increases in precision of their instruments.

They were all DEAD WRONG.

Newtonian mechanics, no matter how hard they tried, no matter how much precision they used, no matter how many times they repeated their calculations, could not explain the precession of Mercury's orbit.

Newtonian mechanics could not explain why light seemed to act in such a bizarre fashion, seeming to move at the exact same speed no matter what one did to the device shining it.

Chemistry could not explain the behavior of the Carbon atom, no matter what anyone did. And people certainly tried.

The scientists of the day were dead wrong because they didn't know about two things: relativity and quantum mechanics. It wasn't until Einstein's General Relativity that they could explain the behavior of Mercury's orbit and the speed of light, and it wasn't until Quantum Mechanics that the behavior of certain "pesky" elements began to make sense.

In the late 19th century, all their smug consensus meant exactly squat. In the early 21st century, guess what: it means squat.

The global warming "consensus" is an anti-capitalist one, not one based on testable hypotheses and scientific measurements. It's a "consensus" that the wealthy countries should have their wealth and productivity given to the poorer countries. It's a "consensus" for a global form of Communism.

Socrates was killed for seeking philosophical truth. Galileo was punished by the Church for seeking scientific truth. The global warming activists (for that is what they really are) are no better than the closed-minded cretins who handed the philosopher the hemlock.

[ClaireSolt]

The Gw movement took an untested hypothesis and decided to run with it. Bush wanted facts, and when the data started accumulating, it did not prove the old hypothesis they had found in some dusty books.