Settled Science, Explained

Some commentary on the “Settled Science” mantra that the greens use to push their delusions and to silence dissent.

Day by Day, from Sept 28:

Original source for this cartoon: Day by Day

Day by Day is a long running series. Years, actually. It leans strongly conservative, so if you lean that way you’ll probably like it. If you don’t, well…

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There are, however, many of us who are intelligent enough, open-minded enough and willing to be labelled uncool to question the current establishment “received wisdom” in things environmental, as can be seen indicated in many of the comments in the skeptical blogosphere. And, in fact, we are quite appalled at the hijacking of environmental issues by a self-selected clique of control-freaks and rent-seekers. Comment on DB
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.” Benjamin Franklin

Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever present climate change is no substitute for prudence. Nor is the assumption that the earth’s climate reached a point of perfection in the middle of the twentieth century a sign of intelligence. Lindzen

The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications.[3] It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the widespread acceptance of the global warming dogma has become one of the main, most costly and most undemocratic public policy mistakes in generations. The previous one was communism. (link)

Environment my backside. When they came to control you in your community they called it communism. When they came to control you in your society they called it socialism. When they came to control you in your environment they called it environmentalism.

If AGW mitigation required dismantling of authority, implementation of libertarian concepts, and less governmental controls, there would be no interest in AGW among the intelligentsia. Not even Greenpeace would support it. It would be considered a capitalistic, conservative plot.

On 24 and Mr. Bauer: In a sane world they would give him a bag of guns and a million dollars and a fistful of uppers and say “You just go on now and do what you want.”

“… skepticism is … dangerous. Skepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody,i ncluding, say, high school students, habits of skeptical thought, they will probably not restrict their skepticism to UFOs, aspirin commercials, and 35,000-year-old channelees. Maybe they’ll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Perhaps they’ll challenge the opinions of those in power. Then where would we be?” (Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, Ballantine, New York, 1997, p. 416)

“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.” - Michael Crichton

Probability is just so damn “uncertain”.

Climate doesn’t kill people. Weather kills people

Climate doesn’t kill science; Mann-made hockey sticks kill science

That wasn't a hurricane, that was Chuck practicing his roundhouse kicks

IPCC = Instigating Profitable Climate Consensus

You know, it makes you wonder. Here we are running around with combustion engines, our medicine is mostly herbs and spices in pretty packages, the only way we can get off this planet is to ignite a bomb in the back of a tube, and almost the entire planet is crisscrossed with wires and pipes... .yet we know enough to control the climate.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."~ Michel de Montaigne

The other point i always make, when asked about these things, is that my business has much more to fear from climate change policy, than from climate change itself.

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