Science & Uncertainty
Some skeptics view climate science as a house of cards. You pull one card from the bottom and the whole thing collapses. But science is mo ...
Oh really, what is your evidence? Many people are confused about the definition of the word 'theory,' especially with climate change.
Models are unreliable. I agree -- they are often late for photo shoots, and sometimes never show up at all!
If you want to find the truth, hire a detective (or scientist). If you just want to win, hire a lawyer (or PR firm).
"We're driving in a car with bad brakes in a fog and heaing for a cliff. We know for sure now that the cliff is out there, we just don't ...
"People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, 'No, I don't,' because belief is faith; faith is the evidence of things not seen ...
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth, despite our best efforts to avoid it."
Partial evidence can be very misleading. Remember the "blind men feeling an elephant" allegory? One feels a leg and says it's a tree. Anot ...
"If ten people told you your house was on fire, you would call the fire department. You wouldn’t really care whether some of them thought th ...
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful” — George E. P. Box
Question: "What is the single most important piece of evidence supporting global warming theory?" Answer: "What is the single strand th ...
"The evidence for climate change is not a house of cards, where you take one piece out and the whole theory falls apart. It's more like a mo ...
"It may not be common sense, but if common sense were good enough, we wouldn't need science."
No doctor can tell us exactly how and when we'll die. But that doesn't invalidate the reality of mortality. We can be quite certain tha ...
"Science is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship. It is the evidence that does the dictating." - author John Reisman
"To a patient scientist, the unfolding greenhouse mystery is far more exciting than the plot of the best mystery novel."—Dr. David Schindler
"I am a pilot. I love flying in bad weather because you must trust the cockpit instruments. Up here, if you do not accept science, you die.— ...