Unsettling “Settled Science”

Townhall.com ^ | March 23, 2014 | Derek Hunter

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[logic101.net]

The true believers are allowed to use isolated weather events to “prove” their belief, but tell us we can't use even a 6 month span (like this unusually cold and long winter) as evidence that they may be wrong.

On the food examples my favorite is eggs. A while back we were told that eggs will kill you; too much cholesterol. This devastated small egg farmers putting many out of business (the big corporate ones could weather the storm). A couple years later, after many families had been ruined financially we were told that eggs were ok after all.

[mongo141]

And to make matters worse , Nothing spouted by the government can be believed.

[2banana]

Of “global warming” was “settled science” and threaten to kill all mankind very quickly:

1. Why did the main scientists of global warming, when they found errors in their models pointing it was less severe issue, not jump for joy and celebrate? And not share this joyful news with the rest of the world in celebration? Instead they were sad and and tried to hide their new data from the public.

2. Why are not the main scientists of global warming not pushing 1000000% for replacing all energy production with nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is the greenest of all power production and dwarfs all wind/solar production. Despite all the bad side effects of nuclear power - it is the only viable way to reduce greenhouse gases if adopted on a massive scale.

Yet the main scientists of global warming are crazy anti-nuclear.

So basically - it is all fake science to grow government.

[fhayek]

This leads to an obvious questions: If temperatures are rising, and it’s an irrefutable fact that humans are to blame, why does it require hundreds of millions of dollars to continue to prove it each year?

This is a great question. I have a proposal. If this is all settled, why don't we tell the climate scientists to put their money where there mouth is. All money now going to climate research will be diverted towards their climate 'solutions'.

[alloysteel]

There is no such thing as “settled science”, as by its very nature, every hypothesis presented in explanation of some observed cause and effect, is subject to later modification or even abandonment, when a substitute explanation can be framed and put to rigorous testing, with the intention in every instance is to disprove each hypothesis in its turn.

Some practical observations, and conclusions about its relationship to the whole of the universe, have stood the test well. Others are subject to so many caveats and exceptions as to prove to be almost useless on a pragmatic basis. “Climate change” is one of those postulations that has not yet proven to be either consistent with other known facts, or reproducible by objective researchers in other venues and programs.

Real science has probed to be too difficult for these climate cultists, and left untried.

[palmer]

coordinate efforts to “hide the decline” in temperatures.

This incorrect statement has been corrected many times. The decline refers to the decline in the proxies (tree rings) which was erased and replaced with the rising temperatures from surface thermometers. They did not hide any decline in temperatures since there has been no decline in temperatures just a halt in the rise.

[VanDeKoik]

Oddly enough, the so-called “I love science” left thinks that being gay is genetic with no scientific proof, and that unborn children aren’t humans but a “glob of tissue”.

And dont forget that DDT causes cancer, despite all of the science that never found that to be true.

[logic101.net]

there has been no decline in temperatures just a halt in the rise.

You obviously do not live in WI!

[Sirius Lee]

The UK Telegraph reported this week, “Scientists have discovered that saturated fat does not cause heart disease while so-called ‘healthy’ polyunsaturated fats do not prevent cardiovascular problems.” This wasn’t just a 180-degree turn from what we “knew” to be true, it’s a full 540-degree loop from what used to be orthodoxy.

Right out of Woody Allen's "Sleeper".

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

[palmer]

you must have forgotten about March 2012, 15.5 degrees above average in Green Bay. This month is -8.5 so far.

[beethovenfan]

Classical mechanics and electromagnetic theory could probably be called “settled”. Everything else in science is developing and changing over time.

[G Larry]

>http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/16-03-2014/127115-global_warming-0/<

How modern global warming science took form

[rexiesmom]

I suggest that at the top of every page of every science book should be the warning label “All science is theory”. Any scientific “fact” is only a fact until it is scientifically contradicted.

[Captain Compassion]

The current theory among the “higher minded” is that Mother Earth is a benign, nurturing and unchanging environment for all her creatures. They also believe that all geologic and climatic history began around 1979 and that any event that threatens Earth’s creatures is unprecedented and has been caused by humankind who is thought to be some form of extra terrestrial virus. Their proof of this is in their computer models and the words of their prophet Al Gore. — Captain
Compassion

[Mike Darancette]

It seems to me that East Coast weather forecasts this winter have been pretty accurate a week or so out. They may not be 100% on where the storms might dump their snow but the predictions that the region will get cold and snow somewhere within a given time frame has been pretty good.

[fella]

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[SunTzuWu]

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[AllAmericanGirl44]

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