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Monday, April 8, 2019

People who say "I believe in science" usually do not

Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren,
Democrat presidential candidate, 
recently said:

“I believe in science. 
And anyone who doesn’t,
has no business 
making decisions 
about our environment.” 

That statement almost certainly 
means the person speaking
has near-zero climate science
knowledge !




What Warren really means, 
by saying: 
“I believe in science”, 
is: 
“I believe in dangerous 
global warming.”

Andrew Yang,
another Democrat
presidential candidate, 
said:
“My father has 
a Ph.D. in physics ...
I believe in science.”




The “I believe in science” phrase
is used as a way of declaring 
belief in a proposition, 
which is not understood.

It's a smoother character attack,
to prevent debate, than the usual
leftist character attack:
"Climate denier" !





Elon Musk once told people 
he’s going to put 
a million people on Mars.

That gets people excited.

The many reasons 
why Mars is a dead planet,
are not exciting !

No one even asks !

“I believe in science” 
too often means 
“I have a degree 
in the liberal arts,
and know nothing 
about science.”





Science isn’t 
about “belief.” 

Science is about:
-- facts
-- evidence
-- theories
-- experiments. 

The theories must 
be falsifiable.

Predictions of the climate
100 years in the future, 
are not a theory
that can be falsified, 
unless you are willing to 
wait for up to 100 years, 
to observe the climate.

“I believe in science” uses
the reputation of “science” 
to shield a specific claim 
from questioning, skepticism
and debate.

“I believe in science” 
is most often used to support 
the wrong theory 
of catastrophic 
man made ( anthropogenic )
global warming, and the 
alleged "solution": 
Powerful government 
regulations to limit, 
or ban, fossil fuels.

The trick is to make 
any disagreement
about global warming 
appear to be 
a rejection of the 
scientific method.





Many theories in history,
probably closer to 100%
than to 50%, were widely 
accepted as the scientific 
“consensus”, and later 
debunked.

The current science 
of plate tectonics, 
and also 
solar wind science, 
took decades 
to win acceptance 
by the mainstream 
of their fields. 





Science is hard.

Scientists are 
much more often
wrong, than they
are right.

Scientists are human, 
prone to:
-- biases
-- blind spots
-- groupthink





Do you think Elizabeth Warren 
and Andrew Yang have given 
any serious study time 
to climate science ? 

Of course not !

But they have "feelings" !

And they "believe in"
a coming climate 
catastrophe !

Real science is about 
real evidence, 
not beliefs in the 
wild guess predictions
of future climate
change catastrophe.

Especially after 
a 60+ year track record 
of those scary 
climate predictions
being wrong !
( the last 30 of those years
being wrong while using 
computer climate models ! )