Global Warming and the Feynman test

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/11/2014 | Tom Trinko

[rktman]

Modern climate fear-mongering is the latest example of the prostitution of science in the service of liberal ideology. Were polymath Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman alive today I suspect he’d be condemning the whole climate conspiracy as a gross abuse of the good name of science. Here’s how Feynman described real science:

[rktman]

But, but, but......I thought that we had a 99.999% consensus.

[pepsionice]

If they had stuck with the global cooling strategy that they had from the early 90’s....people would have found it easier to accept and believe. By flipping twice since....it’s a joke strategy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It feels like 45 degrees here this morning...

[Telepathic Intruder]

All scientists agree that global warming is real, of course, because anyone who says it ain't isn't a real scientist.

[ArcadeQuarters]

I've been shouting this Feynman quote from the rooftops. Glad someone else noticed it as well. This is the video being quoted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw

[aquila48]

Bookmark to irritate my warmist “friends”

[MrB]

The one thing that your avg sheeperal can’t answer is

why is it that the same solutions were offered when we faced an ice age as when we faced “global warming”?

IE, reduced American lifestyle, increased taxes, more government control, less individual freedom...

[rktman]

DENIER, DENIER, PANTS ON FIRE!!!! :>} (due to glow-bull warming of course)

[X-spurt]

Every now and then catch a wee bit of Dr. Oz as he sometimes has reverent subjects to discuss.

Yesterday he had a bit on kidney stones. Right off he says that kidney stones are caused by GLOBULL WARMING, multiple times. Why? Because we don’t consume enough water to overcome the increased heat.

I guess by that measure, Texans always have had more stones than Nuevo Yorkers......

[Fightin Whitey]

It feels like 45 degrees here this morning...

Snowing in Montana this morning.

The moron on tv is calling it "an early winter weather event".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Montana; Where Calgarians go for sun and fun...

[Fightin Whitey]

Where Calgarians go

Ha...the reverse is true too.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You've been to the Stampede, then ?

[Spok]

The only historic constant in earth’s climate is change. Notice how the left asserts the fact that the climate changes as absolute proof of it’s premise that it’s man caused; a false and unsupportable leap in logic.

[Fightin Whitey]

been to the Stampede

Regret to say I haven't.

But I have friends who go up for the Stampede, for fishing and for skiing...sometimes just to go someplace.

[PATRIOT1876]

I doubt that the Global Warming/Climate Change Scam passes ANY scientific test...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I been to two Calgary Stampedes, both a lot of fun. The entire town goes “western” with a Canadian “eh” added in.
Curiously, the sponsors are mostly US firms. I would've expected to see Molsons or LaBatts everywhere but its all Coors and Jack Daniels...

[GOPJ]

The point is that while the warmists are frantically seeking ways to fix their guesses, it is quite possible that what they are really missing are natural processes that mitigate the impact of CO2 in the atmosphere. It’s not science to simply assume that when a guess is wrong that the predictions of the guess are right but we need to change the guess to explain why the predictions are right. That’s blind faith not science. We need to keep investigating, but as of now the warmists have absolutely no credible scientific basis for their climate projections of continued warming.

It's not the 'flipping' part of the con that's the problem... it's that con artists are pretending they're scientists...

[ELS]

Feynman bump

[Old North State]

The motto of the three hundred and fifty year old Royal Society: Nullius in Verba (On the Word of No One), makes essentially the same point that Dr. Feynman is reiterating.