Here's the regional, upper Missouri River take on it all.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Another "spike" in Gorebal Warming
I was out doing archaeological fieldwork this Monday in western Dakota, and the sleet and rain and finally snow moved in by the evening and night. A co-worker and I find it interesting that warm and cold spikes are invariably linked to Gorebal Warming by the Scientific Community. What the hell is going on with your Hard Science discipline, JJ? It doesn't seem like anyone can agree on anything — reminds me of history and philosophy.
Here's the regional, upper Missouri River take on it all.
Here's the regional, upper Missouri River take on it all.
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Good question about the 'science' of global warming. Notice that it has transmuted to 'climate change' now that we're freezing our balls off in the middle of tax season.
Yeah, you're right that there's as much controversy in this discussion as in any philosophical one. but that's because none of the loudmouths talking are scientists. They are in fact all philosophers and politicians. (which is worse??)
The honest scientists that actually bother to look at models and data and that tiresome stuff unsuited to the beret-wearing coffee-guzzling philosopher say the problem is too complicated for a quick answer.
The rest talk loud and get big grants from Al Gore and his minions on Capitol Hill.
Those are called whores. The problem is that when they are all unmasked, they will not hang. They will get their lovely retirement homes in not-so-hot after all Florida while the few honest ones will have been drummed out of academia long before.
JJ, how would you define a Scientist? Someone with a Doctor of Philosophy? Okay, okay: we don't need to rehash this forever long debate.
Could we call the Gorebal Warmists "Political Scientists"? I know that name has already been jacked, but it's so fitting. The complicated (aka, philosophical) nature of human experience and the complexities of the natural world should indicate to the Gorebal Political Scientists that it's simply too reductionistic to attribute a couple degree temperature change in the last century to humanity. How many layers upon layers of Cause and Effect, and the unknown Causes and Effects... mindboggling. Still, Gore stands up and says the world is gonna end tomorrow just before jetting off to his Tennessee mansion.
Of course you're right. If a bunch of scientists don't read the data an look at reasonable models, then are they qualified as scientists to opine and be counted as opining scientists. I would say no and prefer the opinion to be counted of a Nietzschean philosopher with body odor and a starstruck blonde undergrad that had read something legit and thought seriously a bit about it.
The most frightening aspect of the Gorebal warmists is their smug refusal to even entertain the idea of a counterpoint from Scientists who are actually TRAINED scientists. It's f*cked up on so many levels. And Nietzsche loved counterpoint, and despised nostalgia and prophecy. A professor friend of mine who had a superficial understanding of Nietzsche once told me, "He was a romantic..." I exercised restraint and said, "Uh, pardon me?"
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