...by the inimitable Andrew Klavan, using the Left’s own words and tactics:
Utterly brilliant. I can’t imagine how it could be done better.
Here’s an odd thing: Usually, when a noted artist branches out into another field, his efforts there aren’t up to those in the domain in which he established his reputation. But in Klavan’s case, his videos are better than his novels – and I like his novels quite a lot.
UPDATE: Just a couple of additional thoughts.
I recall, some years ago when Glenn Beck's show was on Headline News, a warmista trying "The science is settled" on Beck. Beck waved it away, as was and remains proper. Not only is "science" never "settled;" the proponents of anthropogenic global warming have never done any science. They can't. Here's why.
Science is entirely encompassed and defined by the scientific method. Scientific hypotheses must be confirmed or challenged by predictions about the outcomes of properly designed experiments that others can replicate. However, the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis cannot be confirmed or challenged by experiments of any sort, for several reasons:
- Earth is an "open system," with a multitude of feedback mechanisms that influence atmospheric and oceanic temperatures; thus, producing a replicable experimental setup is inherently impossible.
- There is no way to control or measure the amounts of the various "greenhouse gases" that are emitted per unit time.
- The Sun, which is the principal determinant of temperatures on Earth, is a mildly (4%) variable star.
- Temperature measurement itself is an inexact matter that's easily disturbed by environmental fluctuations of all sorts.
- Even the most careful measure of temperature is nevertheless a local phenomenon, pertaining only to the immediate region around the measuring device. Thus, the exact placement of those devices, which is inherently a matter of judgment, is far more important to the readings than any other aspect of the matter.
Which is why the warmistas rely on simulations. But simulations, as I have excellent reason to know, are relevant only to the exact conditions simulated -- and those conditions cannot, in the nature of things, match the far more complex dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans.
So feel free to sneer at anyone who claims that "the science is settled." Remember what Richard Feynman said about "the infallibility of experts."
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