59 per cent of UK population are 'village idiots' thunders The Times (about global warming)

The Telegraph ^ | 11/14/2009 | James Delingpole

[rickomatic]

How dare these “village idiots” not walk the party line. They must be made to conform!!

[Tennessee Nana]

So 59% are FOR global warming ???

[Sherman Logan]

Before the discovery of sub-atomic particles they believed that everything was made of earth, air, fire and water.

Either poorly written or just stupid.

Yes, the belief in 4 elements came before the discovery of sub-atomic particles, but there was at least a couple centuries between the overturning of the "four element" theory and the splitting of the atom.

[ALPAPilot]

So Dark Matter in the Universe can throw Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity into question, but global warming is beyond doubt? Riiiiiiiiight.

[canuck_conservative]

59% in England DON’T believe in human-caused global warming, and The Times can’t accept that - hence the insults

[Red_Devil 232]

The Village Idiot Who Wrote This Drivel Is On The Right!

[Post Toasties]

Appears to be a color blind village idiot to me, complete with his own little dunce cap.

[your local physicist]

But no previous process of scientific trial, error and progress has ever overturned such a well-attested thesis.

Mark my words. This will be the first time, largely because there hasn't been much trial and error with AGW theory. A small group of scientists started the theory, then it because politically popular in colleges, and after that academia jumped on the AGW bandwagon while the news media ignored dissenting opinions from scientists in the business community. AGW is one of the most complex scientific theories every formulated, and probably the most difficult theory to confirm in the laboratory. That is because it's so difficult to simulate the earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans in a lab experiment. Those simulations have to be done based on theory in computer models, and that's where the errors in AGW theory arose.

The strong reaction and lengthy effort to justify AGW from the Times are a sign that they're beginning to realize that AGW theory is false or at least wildly exaggerated. It the theory was true, it would stand on its own and it wouldn't need so much effort to justify it. Any top-notch statistician can disprove AGW theory just by analyzing the historical climate record.

[your local physicist]

Hey, cool shoes there. Is that a polyester jacket?...very kewl....lol. He must be a media superstar.

[your local physicist]

Correction to post 9:

If the theory was true, it would stand on its own and it wouldn't need so much effort to justify it.

[snowsislander]

Right up to the 19th century, serious scientists wrote recipe books for making animals. But no previous process of scientific trial, error and progress has ever overturned such a well-attested thesis.

Ether and phlogiston are two counterexamples to this; both were widely accepted as scientific theses, but neither are today.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[expatpat]

Actually, many of the ‘brilliant scientists’ are skeptics. It is computer programmers who are the most avid acolytes of AGW.

[Little Bill]

Back in the Old Days in England you had a contract with your local Lord, he did his thing and as long as you did yours all was cool. (That was REASON the Lords built big stone things called Castiles.)

Most of my family held land in Freehold (Kings land), which ment we only had to tug our forelock "Good day your Lordship", Spit, and pay in cash on tax day.

[bmwcyle]

You get a bowl of soup with that hat.

[Post Toasties]

Dr. Phlogiston (at right) and his assistant 'Ether', residents at the Village of Scientific Idiots.

[Tennessee Nana]

I know...

I was goiung on the way the headline reads...

I was making the 59% idiots all GW idiots

:)

actually there are about 12 idiots in the world...

Algore, that one in the UK and about 10 others

[TLI]

Buwhahahahaha!

Oh, oh, I wish I could look that cool! Golly!