Posted on 01/30/2019 5:54:24 AM PST by Moseley
Activists pushing climate change socialism are frustrated by their inability to persuade rational people of their irrational arguments. At heart: can you be a scientist while rejecting the scientific method?
There is absolutely zero evidence of man-made global warming -- none whatsoever. Moshe Pritsker, a former post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School and CEO of JoVE, told Live Science. "The reproducibility of published experiments is the foundation of science. No reproducibility -- no science." Just because one can buy a lab coat for $46.39, that doesn't make them a scientist.
Today "science" has degenerated into "thought experiments." That is, "imagineering" has replaced empirical experimentation. We have returned to the superstition of the Dark Ages. It was once believed that mice and rats spontaneously arose from dirty rags and debris, because dirty rags were observed coincidentally in the same places. A long time passed before anyone tested the idea with hard experimentation to see if it was actually true.
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As reported in Politico on January 27, climate activists at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in January in Phoenix, Arizona admitted they are failing to persuade the American people of the threat of global warming.
Leading climate scientists and meteorologists are banking on a new strategy for talking about climate change: Take the politics out of it.
That means avoiding the phrase “climate change,” so loaded with partisan connotations as it is. Stop talking about who or what is most responsible. And focus instead on what is happening and how unusual it is -- and what it is costing communities.
Educating the public and policymakers about climate change at a time when elected leaders are doubling down on denying that it is happening at all or that humans are responsible for it demands a new lexicon, conference attendees told me
The modern world was built upon the "Scientific Method" popularized by and attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. The "Scientific Method" is variously presented as 6 - 8 steps. Here is an excerpt:
Step 1. Make observations. Observations must be based on specific events that have already happened and can be verified by others as true or false.
Step 2. Form a hypothesis. A hypothesis must be testable and "falsifiable." There must be a way to show the hypothesis is true or false. A hypothesis is usually stated in the negative because this assists in testing. For example, if the observed data would exist even without human activity, then humans are not causing climate change.
Step 3. Design an experiment. How can we test with hard experimentation if our hypothesis is true or false?
The hallmark of Plato. Like "The Cave" being a thought experiment.
Although, The Cave applies perfectly to today's lieberals.
You are not really a scientist if you ignore the scientific method. You are a faker. However you can be enshrined as one at a politically correct university and even be given tenure. You will be subsidized by the taxpayers for the rest of your life.
No.
It’s a bit insulting to be lectured to by the likes of Al Gore and Bill Nye. More insulting yet, are those from the UN with their little degrees in international studies, or AAs in business, cobbling together wishful thinking into “regulations” they want to impose on countries in which they do not live or pay taxes.
“Climate change” is NOT science- it is a religion.
I am a scientist, and it's only Obama's lawyers who are trying to denigrate my science.
I'm certain there is climate change, as I live in a Florida house that sits atop a ridge of sand. The sand is of a geological time when my property was once beachfront—and now that house sits at 100 feet above sea level.
Can puny humans change the climate? Maybe we can slow the next Ice Age (which nobody wants)—with the extinctions that happened back then—but let's not get in a lather about it. Enjoy the warmth while it's here!
When PEOPLE (intentionally) contaminate the contents of the scientific process with (intentionally) flawed computer modelling and outrageous changing of data points over history, there is no longer a scientific method. There is indisputable evidence to that point.
I’ve seen geneticists argue whether the concept of a ‘gene’ exists but this conversation took place civilly.
Around 20 years ago I started hearing that anyone who doesn’t believe in human caused ‘climate change’ (or whatever they called it then) was a ‘lone nut.’ It appeared much more of a movement or cultural touchstone than a ‘science.’
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” - Richard Feynman
Climate change is a fact. It has been happening for 4.5 billion years, ever since the Earth was formed. The question is what is the impact of Man on the climate and how much control does/can Man have over the climate.
More time and money needs to be spent on adjusting to the effects of climate change and not on controlling it.
He’s not a barber, he’s a hair scientist. /sarcasm
The land my house is on was alternately ocean and dry land 5 times in the last 109 million years.
It was even once part of France!:)
No.
Can you be Catholic and vote pro-abortion? No.
Can you be a doctor and advise killing? No.
Can you be an illegal immigrant and vote here? No.
Global warming fanatics have turned “climate science” into a pseudo-science, which misuses science in the same way the church did in the middle ages. Instead of evidence, it depends on “consensus”, which is not part of the scientific method. Instead of being a heretic for not believing the sun goes around the earth, you are now a “denier” for believing that the world isn’t ending. Science is never “settled” like it is in climate science. The scientific method is a loop which doesn’t end with a single conclusion. A theory must continually be validated against incoming evidence. In climate science, evidence is only allowed if it matches the predetermined conclusion. That’s basically the reverse of how the scientific method is supposed to work.
Grand Solar Minimum over the next 50 years. Mini ice age coming (again)?
The answer is no. Scientific method requires evidence to support a hypothesis. Majority of scientists, or so-called scientists today are simply Stalinists pushing a communist Party agenda
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