“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” —George Washington
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Global Warming Science
Substitute "global warming" for "a witch" and you get the picture...I love the Obamats in the opening scene!
Hat tip DFB.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
People get ready - the fight over cap and trade and whether people cause warming is going to be one of the ugliest we've seen in a long time because we're going to have to rely on academics to frame the issues. Fights are particularly nasty in the academy because the stakes are so low, but these battles will spill out into a broader public forum. Time to pull out Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He's the inventor of the much abused "paradigm shift" concept, but more important for the coming debate is how the "old science" defends its turf and is eventually displaced by the "new science" as innovations are eventually, grudgingly absorbed. This is the sausage-making part of science. And this is why it's so important for Gore et al to insist that the debate is closed. Keep watching the way that the Kyoto defenders make their arguments - not so much what they say but what they want - ie. no discussion, no debate, and they'll brand anyone who doesn't agree with them with some variant of craziness. Because they're not equipped to join issue, they go to ad hominem approaches to try to shame opponents into silence.
1 comment:
People get ready - the fight over cap and trade and whether people cause warming is going to be one of the ugliest we've seen in a long time because we're going to have to rely on academics to frame the issues. Fights are particularly nasty in the academy because the stakes are so low, but these battles will spill out into a broader public forum. Time to pull out Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He's the inventor of the much abused "paradigm shift" concept, but more important for the coming debate is how the "old science" defends its turf and is eventually displaced by the "new science" as innovations are eventually, grudgingly absorbed. This is the sausage-making part of science. And this is why it's so important for Gore et al to insist that the debate is closed. Keep watching the way that the Kyoto defenders make their arguments - not so much what they say but what they want - ie. no discussion, no debate, and they'll brand anyone who doesn't agree with them with some variant of craziness. Because they're not equipped to join issue, they go to ad hominem approaches to try to shame opponents into silence.
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