If you have any interest in “climate change” at all, then you probably fall into one of two classes of persons interested in “climate change.” One class is comprised of folks who want hard numbers and replicable, real world research to verify or falsify hypotheses (or just refine wild-assed guesses so that hypotheses can be formed and tested). This class can contain both people whose personal inclination is to believe that anthropogenic climate change is real and potentially catastrophic, and those who doubt such a proposition.
As long as the above class seeks to gather hard numbers and perform well-designed, replicable research, then their interest is legitimate and to be lauded, no matter what they are predisposed to believe.
Then there is the second class: those who seem to belong to the Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Alarmism. CACA acolytes DGARA about facts, replicable testing, etc., but simply have “faith” that mankind is killing Mother Earth. Because dogma.
Now, it they weren’t trying to compel folks to conform to CACA dogma against their consciences, they’d just be kooks. But these kooks are dangerous. And to compel others to conform to their religious beliefs is evil. Since CACA acolytes almost uniformly seek to impose their indefensible (a fair description, because I have yet to see or hear a defense of CACA dogma using replicable research based on verifiable, undoctored facts) beliefs on those they deem to be unbelievers, regardless of any reasons for scepticism. Indeed. condemnation of scepticism alone is enough to condemn this class of persons, because science without scepticism is just. . . unfounded dogma.
My response to global warming is based on my faith, both in the faithfulness of God, and the depravity of man.
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” – Genesis 8:29
To think that man can alter that, or even “destroy the earth” is nothing but hubris. Global warming, originally global cooling and now “climate change” alarmism has been presented as catastrophic and world threatening for over 40 years, and not one of their predictions has come true in all that time, at least none that I can recall. The alarmists are nothing but false prophets peddling a false religion, for worldly, monetary gain. In Moses’ day they’d be taking a nap under a pile of rocks.
As for science, I am all for letting them do research to attempt to falsify my hypothesis that climate change is driven more by natural factors than by human influence. On their own nickel, and not mine or yours. I don’t think that until they can do that that we should worry or let them drive policy.
Yeh, what you said, Perri. *heh*
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