Global Warming: Hot Air And Intellectual Bankruptcy
DIZZY notes:
Without a doubt the green activist Mark Lynas has to be contender for the Global Village Idiot of the 21st Century Award. This morning, he told the Independent, “It’s intellectual bankruptcy. The entire scientific community is telling the world that it’s the biggest threat to human civilisation. What more evidence do you need?”
No Mark, what however is intellectual bankruptcy is to claim that something is intellectually bankrupt by saying that because lots of people believe something it must by definition be true. To dismiss something as devoid of intellectual rigour on the basis of an ad populum argument is the real act of intellectual bankruptcy here.
Incidentally, before anyone starts screaming “climate change denier” this is not about whether or not man-made climate change is either right or wrong. It’s about the way in which those that consider it to be true persist in portraying the nonsense that “scientific knowledge” is about “consensus”, and that whatever the consensus is, is a scientific fact.
Those people do a disservice to the past 400 years of scientific learning and discovery by peddling hokum arguments to the masses. Man-made climate change may in fact be right, however telling people it’s right because lots of people believe it is right is bollocks.
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September 10th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Wow, Hmmm. Congrats on getting just about everything you said completely wrong. About the only thing right about is the Exon funds a few (not anywhere near all) scientists with a bit of money. 19 million went to combating the global warming absurdity (and most of that wasn’t from Exon) whereas 50 BILLION went to support global warming.
The people disbelieve this so called “evidence” are the intelligent ones who don’t follow what some scientists, looking out for the security of their absurdly well paid jobs, pull out of their ass. Keep holding tight to your unpublished and unproven climate models and utter lies about consensus. You might manage to convince a few human sheep.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
i, like christoph, am also shocked..but for different reasons, firstly the “lots of people” you speak about are scientits who have dedicated time and money into researching climate change, and if they dont know what they are talking about who does, secondly the only argument caused among scientists about whether or not climate change is man made is funded by Exon. and finally, so called “climate change sceptics” are only disbelieving this evidence because they are too afraid that they will have to change their affluent lifestyle if they do agree with it
bollocks is right Dizzy, but not in the context you are using it
September 7th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Brilliant article. Thank you. There is common sense left in England.
I’m shocked.