Back when educators used to believe in and teach “the scientific method,” we learned that a theory wasn’t true unless it could be proven false – that there were conditions under which the theory could be disproven. The global warming zealots do not see it that way – there can be nothing that disproves the theory. In fact, anyone who disagrees is branded as “a denier,” and thus dense, thick-headed, stupid and not at all scientific. The federal government has, for years, been “adjusting” the raw temperature readings that were taken over many decades. Guess which way they are adjusted. Yes, always in the direction of “proving” global warming. Gov. Brown and some others have blamed some of the recent circumstances of weather on the fact that President Trump withdrew America from the Paris climate accords. The believers in anthropogenic climate change tamper with the data, use both extreme cold weather and extreme hot weather as proof of their theory, espouse laughably illogical arguments; declare it all is “settled science” – notwithstanding they wrap themselves in the exalted mantle of “science.”And their theory is the one that no one can disprove, regardless of the evidence.
BY JOHN SHAFFER President Trump makes most of his own trouble. For instance, back during the presidential election campaign, he made reference to Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 vanished emails by remarking to the crowd at a campaign rally words to the effect that “If the Russians have those emails, please release them!” His audience, many of whom probably disliked Mrs. Clinton even more fervently than they liked Mr. Trump, roared at the joke. A few days later some emails were released, perhaps by Russian hackers, and Hillary’s supporters took that to mean that “the Russians were working with Trump,” and they have been playing it like a precious violin ever since. Never mind that Mr. Trump’s remark is a relatively common form of argument, and was intended as a sarcastic dig at Mrs. C., not as a command to release stolen emails. The damning content of the emails and Mrs. Clinton’s reckless manner of handling information both were ignored, “trumped”as it were by the fact that the emails were purloined, and Mr. Trump – who almost certainly had nothing to do with the emails at all, became the villain of the piece. A similar thing happened last week, when Mr. Trump referred to the bitter cold snap that much of America was enduring by asking for some of that "global warming” to counteract the cold. The wise and proper believers in “climate change” (which is the contemporary way of saying ‘anthropogenic [that is, man-made] global warming’) were quick to slice up Mr. Trump for stupidly confusing weather with climate. Of course, whenever it is really hot – the climate change crowd says this is proof of global warming; and whenever there is a period with little snow, the climate change crowd says this is proof of global warming; and whenever someplace gets too much or too little rainfall, the climate change crowd says this is proof of global warming; and sure enough, just a couple of weeks ago, when noting the unusually heavy snowfall in Maine the climate change crowd says this it was proof of global warming. California’s Governor Jerry Brown had blamed that state’s multi-year drought on global warming. Last year, the drought was officially declared to be over – the Governor hasn’t explained how that was possible, with all that global warming going on. Global warming is blamed for terrorism, poverty, hurricanes, lack of hurricanes, too much snow, too little snow; when it is too hot or too cold; when it snows in places it normally doesn’t, or doesn’t snow in places it normally does – the advocates of the theory of anthropogenic climate change always have the same answer. They, of course, are allowed to invoke the current weather as proof of their theory. When President Trump (or anyone else, for that matter) points out that it is unusually cold, he is ridiculed.
Back when educators used to believe in and teach “the scientific method,” we learned that a theory wasn’t true unless it could be proven false – that there were conditions under which the theory could be disproven. The global warming zealots do not see it that way – there can be nothing that disproves the theory. In fact, anyone who disagrees is branded as “a denier,” and thus dense, thick-headed, stupid and not at all scientific. The federal government has, for years, been “adjusting” the raw temperature readings that were taken over many decades. Guess which way they are adjusted. Yes, always in the direction of “proving” global warming. Gov. Brown and some others have blamed some of the recent circumstances of weather on the fact that President Trump withdrew America from the Paris climate accords. The believers in anthropogenic climate change tamper with the data, use both extreme cold weather and extreme hot weather as proof of their theory, espouse laughably illogical arguments; declare it all is “settled science” – notwithstanding they wrap themselves in the exalted mantle of “science.”And their theory is the one that no one can disprove, regardless of the evidence. Comments are closed.
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