Comment 110515

By CharlesBall (registered) | Posted March 25, 2015 at 13:03:35 in reply to Comment 110478

The point of raising Phlogiston in Kuhn's theory of paradigms was that people held and lost academic careers over their wedding to the theory when in fact we now know that there never has been any such element.

The current climate models are based on numerous assumptions and do not answer all questions. Like in all areas of science, the debates get heated as careers ride on the theories. I raised the point for Dylan because this has all happened before historically (think of Giordano Bruno who died, in part, because he opposed the Ptolemaic theory of cosmology.) Time will tell as to the degree to which human existence influences the climate.

For my part, arguments against waste are far more convincing than global climate change being caused by CO2. Cutting down forests and destroying the oceans may prove to be far more influential on climate than CO2 emissions, but who will care when Hamilton is under a kilometer of ice.

Comment edited by CharlesBall on 2015-03-25 13:06:54

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell

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