On Apr 27, 5:14 am, 1treePetrifiedForestLane <
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wrote:
> that's beautiful; you have surpassed teh day-to-day tug-o-war
> between teh Denierists, and teh God-am "97-per-centers,"
> the Confirmerists, who must predominantly be programmers.
>
Yes I have surpassed it and expect others who are equally confident to
look at the bigger picture which produced science fiction on a
militaristic scale.
Behind the superficial arguments,the curtain rises on where the real
lines are drawn in this particular battle and you may find people who
have so far contended with the utterly ridiculous idea of human
control over global temperature shy away from this particular battle
as modelers don't see it as an issue of climate,that is merely
incidental to them,they see it as an attack on the modeling agenda
itself and this is lethal to the 'scientific method' or the vicious
strain of empiricism as Humboldt recognized it to be.
What the climate issue has done is crack open modeling as it has been
done in other areas of science for the reaction to the fact that the
planet has not warmed to any great extent and at variance with the
models was to become more aggressive and take the unbelievable/
unconscionable step of morphing 'global warming' to 'climate change'
thereby undermining every terrestrial science which relies on known
climate change throughout planetary and human history and that is an
intellectual crime whatever way you put it.
The theory of global warming was explaining so many opposite weather
phenomena from drought to floods,from heatwaves to severe cold spells
that it should have alerted people,at least those who value their
intelligence,to the fact that when an ideology lie that explains
everything it also explains nothing as it becomes a vehicle for all
sorts of misdirection and exploitation.This is not the first time it
happened that a group elevated an ideology or a person to a superior
status because it seem to answer everything they wished to
hear,everything from Piltdown man to Nazi doctrine relied on a herd
mentality where the leaders are merely the surface expression of the
movement of a herd in a particular direction and this is why many
people who take a reasonable view on climate would withdraw as it
involves the elevation of Newton and his 'theory of gravity' which
like global warming seemed to answer every possible question.I am not
the first to notice it as an admirer of Humboldt once did -
"To explain: — The Newtonian Gravity — a law of Nature — a law whose
existence as such no one out of Bedlam questions — a law whose
admission as such enables us to account for nine-tenths of the
Universal phænomena — a law which, merely because it does so enable us
to account for these phænomena, we are perfectly willing, without
reference to any other considerations, to admit, and cannot help
admitting, as a law — a law, nevertheless, of which neither the
principle nor the modus operandi of the principle, has ever yet been
traced by the human analysis — a law, in short, which, neither in its
detail nor in its generality, has been found susceptible of
explanation at all — is at length seen to be at every point thoroughly
explicable, provided we only yield our assent to —— what? To an
hypothesis? Why if an hypothesis — if the merest hypothesis — if an
hypothesis for whose assumption — as in the case of that pure
hypothesis the Newtonian law itself — no shadow of à priori reason
could be assigned — if an hypothesis, even so absolute as all this
implies, would enable us to perceive a principle for the Newtonian law
— would enable us to understand as satisfied, conditions so
miraculously — so ineffably complex and seemingly irreconcileable as
those involved in the relations of which Gravity tells us, — what
rational being could so expose his fatuity as to call even this
absolute hypothesis an hypothesis any longer — unless, indeed, he were
to persist in so calling it, with the understanding that he did
so,simply for the sake of consistency in words?"
The issue of modeling climate with computers is not that much
different than modeling planetary dynamics with watches and the
clockwork solar system which is the nearest people hear of the 'theory
of gravity', a mechanical form of reasoning that takes shortcuts and
uses distortions to maintain a conclusion and this is where modelers
receive their artificial confidence as a group.Nobody questions the
hypothesis nor the method by which the conclusions are drawn,they
simply accept an overreaching conclusion that the behavior of objects
at a human level and planetary dynamics are the same thing with no
regard as to the methods and inputs needed to bridge one with the
other,likewise carbon dioxide and global warming and the idea of the
premise exists as the conclusion.
Nobody wants to know about the bigger picture as the skirmish is kept
at the level of graphs and local observations hence there are no real
victories or defeats,just a dull round of assertions and counter-
assertions with no decisive conclusion.To really deal with the matter
requires going back in history and focus on where this vicious form of
empiricism emerged and few could do that,at least as far as I can
tell.