It’s amazing to me how the scientific method has been reduced to a ‘consensus’ in public opinion polls of people that really don’t have a clue one way or the other.
I and others here on FR have over the years posted quite a bit about a fellow named Lysenko in the old Soviet Union. His brand of ‘science’ came to be known as Lysenkoism. Today’s anthropogenic global warming or climate change (AGW/ACC)proponents appear as a sort of replica of Lysenkoism brought into today’s setting.
With all that we know about history and its failures we really shouldn’t allow these people (AGW/ACC activists) to be funded to carry forward the false pseudo-science of yesteryear.
Galileo new all about consensus too.
It’s really funny to me that the AGW proponents and the flood geology folks us the same abuses of logic. That is appeals to authority, ad hominem attacks, straw man propositions are favored by both groups. From a scientific viewpoint, it is undeniable that the climate is changing. The earth record is one of constantly changing climates both regionally (most common) and worldwide. The question is “What combinations of factors cause what changes?”
Lysenko was dealing with genetics, and Gregor Mendels experiments and those of subsequent geneticists proved Lysenko was wrong. The “Communist Religion” had to one-up the rest of international science with their own dogma. Climate science has nothing to do with genetics, and the Lysenko falacies have nothing to do with climate opinions, facts and falacies. It’s like comparing apples and garlic.