by jackokie » Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:43 pm
I had missed the article "The Long Farewell to the Big Bang Model of Cosmology" when it was first published. Thanks, nick c, for including that link in your post; there was a lot of background info that I had not seen. I was disappointed, in fact experienced a little cognitive dissonance, to find in the article Dr. Hüfner's seemingly blithe acceptance of "Climate Change" when its underpinnings exhibit the same lack of rigor and scrutiny as the output of the Big Bangers. Why does it matter? The damage being done by what passes for "science" these days not only wastes tremendous sums, the potential for misery and death extends to millions. If one is a true champion of scientific inquiry, there can be no exceptions for signaling virtue to a politically powerful fallacy. I confess to being somewhat of a fanboy of Richard Feynman when it comes to how science should be done. Here are a few relevant maxims (the first one certainly applies to our government's handling of the pandemic):
"No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race." ~ Richard P. Feynman
"If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated." ~ Richard P. Feynman
"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." ~ Richard P. Feynman
If I am wrong about the quality of the research supporting the IPCC please point me to where ALL of the data and ALL of the manipulations of that data are available. Please point me to other studies that confirm the original papers. What I see from the IPCC is the same kind of fear porn promoted during the pandemic.
In the late 1980s the U.N. was already claiming the world had only a decade to solve global warming or face the consequences. For the last forty years IPCC mouthpieces have been warning that catastrophe is only (5,10, [scary number]) years away.
The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Perhaps Dr. Hüfner, being in Germany, is compelled to mouth the IPCC's pieties.
I had missed the article "The Long Farewell to the Big Bang Model of Cosmology" when it was first published. Thanks, nick c, for including that link in your post; there was a lot of background info that I had not seen. I was disappointed, in fact experienced a little cognitive dissonance, to find in the article Dr. Hüfner's seemingly blithe acceptance of "Climate Change" when its underpinnings exhibit the same lack of rigor and scrutiny as the output of the Big Bangers. Why does it matter? The damage being done by what passes for "science" these days not only wastes tremendous sums, the potential for misery and death extends to millions. If one is a true champion of scientific inquiry, there can be no exceptions for signaling virtue to a politically powerful fallacy. I confess to being somewhat of a fanboy of Richard Feynman when it comes to how science should be done. Here are a few relevant maxims (the first one certainly applies to our government's handling of the pandemic):
[quote]"No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race." ~ Richard P. Feynman
"If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated." ~ Richard P. Feynman
"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." ~ Richard P. Feynman
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If I am wrong about the quality of the research supporting the IPCC please point me to where ALL of the data and ALL of the manipulations of that data are available. Please point me to other studies that confirm the original papers. What I see from the IPCC is the same kind of fear porn promoted during the pandemic.
In the late 1980s the U.N. was already claiming the world had only a decade to solve global warming or face the consequences. For the last forty years IPCC mouthpieces have been warning that catastrophe is only (5,10, [scary number]) years away.
[quote]The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”
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Perhaps Dr. Hüfner, being in Germany, is compelled to mouth the IPCC's pieties.