Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/02/2011 3:48:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
A big revelation on global warming?
Or "... those lying, cheating climate scientists will insist on going on lying and cheating ..."?
VDH sums it up well.
Here's what interest me: why do the journalists and professors so fervently believe in things they cannot possibly verify on their own?
Well, they believe in the "scientists." But why? Are all scientists always right? Of course not; the definition of science is that new information and ideas are constantly refining or overturning old verities. The definition of science is that scientists are sometimes wrong, or will be at some point.
What if it's a class thing? Instapundit has a link to an essay class warfare within the New Class. "OWS is best understood not as a populist movement against the bankers, but instead as the breakdown of the New Class into its two increasingly disconnected parts. The upper tier, the bankers-government bankers-super credentialed elites. But also the lower tier, those who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the Virtue Industries of government and non-profits — the helping professions, the culture industry, the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control, as Christopher Lasch pointed out in his final book, The Revolt of the Elites."
Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/outside-observer/article_b95053b2-040e-11e1-87f2-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1cXkkEOss
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The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.
AGW is unfalsifiable: All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.
Interesting distinction: the “Knowledge Class” and the “Ignorance Class”.
Yes, it is. Very good description.
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