On 19/09/13 16:42, Terry Fields wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

On 19/09/2013 15:05, Terry Fields wrote:

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It is clear that climate science is in its infancy.
Not according to the fanatics it isn't.. its proven and absolutely
correct to the point where they can just shout down anyone that says
otherwise.
A reading of scientific history more than suggests that anyone at any
time that says 'the science is settled' is, well, bonkers.
That is exactly why people who are not scientists should at least read
up on teh philosphy of science - Popper chiefly, and Kuhn and so on, so
they at least understand that all that science is, is a MODEL of the
world, which invents things that explain why things are the way they
are, and predicts the way they will be, in certain limited cases.

Science is not 'the Truth' : at best it is a useful approximation to
what the truth actually is, with no certanity that the entities it
formulates - its 'natural laws' and things like 'gravity' - have eny
existence beyond mere descriptive terms used to describe 'that way
things behave', given that you have a language at all, that understands
and defines what 'things' and 'behaviour' actually are.

At worst it is a false model that either just happens to work, or in the
case of pseudo science - which is what AGW is increasingly becoming -
doesn't actually work AT ALL in terms of predictions. Like religion.
Which holds as true that whatever happens is god's will, which is a
functionally empty statement because it nowhere tells you what god's
will actually intends.

Likewise AGW is the 'sin' of emitting CO2 for which we will be
'punished' by any one of an alarming number of local and global
catastrophes, of Sodom and Gomorrah like magnitude, unless we offer
sacrifices, in the form of green taxes, to the priests of Gaia, and
their 'pardoners' like Java Jive and harry,

who are only to ready to sell you 'indulgences' in th eform of windmills
and solar panels. .

It all has a suitably medieaval feel to it, so beloved of the bearded
be-sandalled unwashed...junk all this complicated technology that they
simply dont understand and which scares them,. and get back to beer and
a shag, and windmills and donkeys and a populations of 2 million..and
pray at the altar of Gaia, whose fairy lights will come on when the wind
blows, as a natural windmill constricted out of bamboo and hessian, will
be the only technology allowed.



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