Thursday, February 27, 2014
These Things Don't Exist
Jeffrey Kluger, whom I had never heard about before (probably because he writes for Time magazine), takes on Charles Krauthammer over Krauthammer's balanced but well reasoned article a week ago here. Kluger's trying to punch way above his intellectual weight, emphasis on 'trying.' Here is one stupid thing he writes:
The fact that has become inescapable for those who have indeed followed the research, who may have even read at least a few of the scientific papers (and not just the abstracts of those papers—that’s cheating—the whole thing, beginning to end, intro to data-crunching to conclusion) is that virtually no legitimate climate scientists ever claim to know exactly what will happen in 20 or 30 or 50 years. For a long time, in fact, climate science has been built on two core truths: that the climate is changing, driven in meaningful ways by human greenhouse emissions; and that the climate system as a whole is far, far too complex to be modeled or understood with anything like absolute certainty. (Emphasis added).
Labels: Belief--Me v. Your Lying Eyes; Jeffrey Kluger
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:21 PM 
