Sorry, but he's not an "expert witness" here, he's just bowing down and worshiping at the feet of his god.
"Do not doubt The Consensus, thou scoffer!"
You want to talk about faith? There's your faith right there.
The fact is, "The Consensus" has been wrong about quite a lot of things throughout history, and there's good reason to think they're wrong about this. Yes, the scientific process tends to get it right eventually (often with a number of false steps along the way), but as Michael Crichton astutely observed, "The Consensus" is only invoked when the evidence is not strong enough in and of itself. Who says, "It is the consensus of scientists that the earth is round"? Nobody, because the evidence speaks for itself.
Oh, so it doesn't matter what the evidence actually says if we presume "dire consequences", is that it?
"Why would you doubt The Consensus that the earth is flat when the consequences of sailing off the edge and into the abyss are so dire!"
Oh, and then there's this:
Of course the paper still tries to spin it as "We were wrong, but we're still totally right!" but it's a fairly damning indictment against "The Consensus". What it comes down to is that they were not just wrong but wildly wrong about man's ability to significantly affect the earth's climate. But give them another couple of decades; maybe they'll eventually get around to admitting that man's affect is, in fact, insignificant and nothing to worry about it.
"Do not doubt The Consensus, thou scoffer!"
You want to talk about faith? There's your faith right there.
The fact is, "The Consensus" has been wrong about quite a lot of things throughout history, and there's good reason to think they're wrong about this. Yes, the scientific process tends to get it right eventually (often with a number of false steps along the way), but as Michael Crichton astutely observed, "The Consensus" is only invoked when the evidence is not strong enough in and of itself. Who says, "It is the consensus of scientists that the earth is round"? Nobody, because the evidence speaks for itself.
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"Why would you doubt The Consensus that the earth is flat when the consequences of sailing off the edge and into the abyss are so dire!"
Oh, and then there's this:
Of course the paper still tries to spin it as "We were wrong, but we're still totally right!" but it's a fairly damning indictment against "The Consensus". What it comes down to is that they were not just wrong but wildly wrong about man's ability to significantly affect the earth's climate. But give them another couple of decades; maybe they'll eventually get around to admitting that man's affect is, in fact, insignificant and nothing to worry about it.
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