I can’t remember a colder December....and there is about 6 inches of white stuff on the ground here, and it’s just starting!
Yes, Judah, there is Global Warming. It exists as certainly as self-delusion and conceit and arrogance exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Global Warming. It would be as dreary as if there were no Judah. There would be no childlike faith then, no fantasy, no grants to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which tenure fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Global Warming! You might as well not believe in fairies, excuse me, Gays! You might get your NASA to launch satellites to watch in all the chimneys on all the power plants to catch Global Warming, but even if they did not see Global Warming, what would that prove? Nobody sees Global Warming, but that is no sign that there is no Global Warming. The most real things in the world are those that neither scientists nor mere humans can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing in Central Park? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
[Leon] Festinger stated that five conditions must be present, if someone is to become a more fervent believer after a failure or disconfirmation:
- A belief must be held with deep conviction and it must have some relevance to action, that is, to what the believer does or how he behaves.
- The person holding the belief must have committed himself to it; that is, for the sake of his belief, he must have taken some important action that is difficult to undo. In general, the more important such actions are, and the more difficult they are to undo, the greater is the individual's commitment to the belief.
- The belief must be sufficiently specific and sufficiently concerned with the real world so that events may unequivocally refute the belief.
- Such undeniable disconfirmatory evidence must occur and must be recognized by the individual holding the belief.
- The individual believer must have social support. It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand the kind of disconfirming evidence that has been specified. If, however, the believer is a member of a group of convinced persons who can support one another, the belief may be maintained and the believers may attempt to proselyte or persuade nonmembers that the belief is correct.
Makes for a useful checklist. The late Dr. Festinger died at about the same time political correctness got rolling. (Source.)
I’m freezing in Los Angeles due to global warming...if anyone believes this nonsense, i have a bridge to sell to you, cheap!
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
...So we really ought to look into theories that don't work, and science that isn't science.I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.
That's weird.
Not as weird as The New York Times, but weird nonetheless.
It’s 21F outside and snowing.
Al Gore promised us palm trees!!!!!
Notably, the faster I drive, the longer it takes me to get to my destination.
The more money I spend, the fatter my bank account gets.
The more food I eat, the skinnier I get.
The more I drink, the soberer I get.
I can't tell you what a relief it is to know that there's someone else out there that I can relate with.
Oops. Gotta go. My one hour of recreation for the week is over. Back to my cell I go. Back into my Snuggie. Which reminds me of something else I've been wondering about. Does every Snuggie come with arms that cross over the chest and fasten in the back? It doesn't look like it from the commercials.
LOL! The NY Slimes wants to get ahead of the inevitable blowback against global “warming.”
Yet here’s a fact: the oceans haven’t warmed.
And another fact: the warmest year was 1998. We’ve had a dozen years of global cooling, with no end (e.g. legions of sunspots) in sight.
So, they don’t take into account snow cover and heat energy escaping into space.
Sounds pretty flawed to me.
This was not in the article that I saw. You do not know how to excerpt.