tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1810711575657641663..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Why global warming/ climate change really is *the* biggest science scamBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-31840522651250272062011-02-09T19:07:22.391+00:002011-02-09T19:07:22.391+00:00I wonder about the many other Big Lies in "sc...I wonder about the many other Big Lies in "science" out there that stay shielded by the ideological Brahmins of peer review.<br /><br />Anecdote: I've met many science PhD students lately with almost zero knowledge of basic epistemology -- many of them have never heard of the problem of induction! And, of course, no knowledge of/interest in basic logic and philosophy ("that's useless BS").<br /><br />This is why C.S. Lewis made the important distinction between "natural philosopher" and "scientist," the latter being a simple specialist who applies a set of predefined methodologies. <br /><br />It seems to me that, for most of modernity, the scientific process relied on the division of labor to put the pieces together; this arrangement worked out successfully because the epistemological framework was a given, i.e. almost everyone had a clear concept of what <i>truth</i> meant. This is not the case anymore -- today "truth" is arbitrarily defined by majority vote, committees and other bureaucracies, all of which are irrational and deeply ideological. <br /><br />Oswald Spengler observed that, during the winter phase of civilization, science becomes ideological and cultish and dominated by bureaucracy and democracy, until it finally gets exhausted.Dirichletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64795311336357049972011-02-09T18:55:37.771+00:002011-02-09T18:55:37.771+00:00HOJnr -
Well, not really... the Big Lie is that ...HOJnr - <br /><br />Well, not really... the Big Lie is that anybody understands anything at all about future climate. <br /><br />There is no point in debating minutiae like the relative importance of CO2 when we don't have a clue what we are talking about.<br /><br />So I do find the basic science of climate change *grossly* objectionable! - in the sense that I am disgusted when ignorant people claim to have precise knowledge, which they then impose on me!<br /><br />In medicine such people are called Quacks, and are recognized as very dangerous indeed (especially the licensed quacks). <br /><br />BTW - Yesterday I came across a posting of yours on YouTube - you had illustrated George Butterworth's Banks of Green Willow with some of your delightful photos - I was sending the link to someone. <br /><br />Beautiful, tragic music isn't it?Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-37421680018096362232011-02-09T17:31:22.305+00:002011-02-09T17:31:22.305+00:00The Big Lie about Climate Change is that most of t...The Big Lie about Climate Change is that most of the supposed remedies for it (Kyoto etc.) will have negligible effect.<br /><br />The basic science on which the Global Warming theory is based is unobjectionable. CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas which, in the absence of any other factor, will cause the temperature to go up. It is that "absence of any other factor" which is where all the controversy lies.<br /><br />My recommendations: observe some more, study some more, investigate engineering solutions etc. - but don't destroy the economy or our civilization with wild government-directed schemes to force the adoption of "green" technologies before they are proven or even needed.HenryOrientJnrnoreply@blogger.com