{"id":13657,"date":"2012-02-21T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:47:25","slug":"the-cult-of-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/the-cult-of-warm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of Warm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth sent me a link to this article<\/a> by Daniel Greenfield on the climate change\/global warming debate:<\/p>\n

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The journey from hypothesis to rock solid consensus is a long one, and it doesn\u2019t end just because Al Gore makes a documentary or a few ads show crying polar bears. Positions are argued, minds change and then a century later the graduate students have fun mocking the ignorance of both sides. That\u2019s science.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Cult of Warm doesn\u2019t accept that there is a debate. As far as they are concerned, the debate never happened because it never needed to happen because they were always right. They can\u2019t intelligently address dissent, because their science is not based on discovering the evidence needed to lead to a consensus, but on insisting that there is a consensus and that accordingly there is no need to debate the evidence.<\/p>\n

In an ordinary scientific debate, a professor leaving one side and joining another might occasion some recriminations and name calling, but it wouldn\u2019t make him anathema. But like being gay or Muslim, hopping on board the Warm Train makes you a permanent member, and there is no room for changing your mind. Once a Warmist, always a Warmist. That\u2019s not a rational position, but then the Cult of Warm is not a rational faith.<\/p>\n

Scientific debates have often had big stakes for human philosophy, but Global Warming is one of the few whose real world implications are as big as its philosophical consequences. At stake is nothing less than the question of whether the human presence on earth is a blight or a blessing, and whether every person must be tightly regulated by a global governance mechanism for the sake of saving the planet. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth sent me a link to this article by Daniel Greenfield on the climate change\/global warming debate: The journey from hypothesis to rock solid consensus is a long one, and it doesn\u2019t end just because Al Gore makes a documentary or a few ads show crying polar bears. Positions are argued, minds change and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,16],"tags":[245,86,240,39],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-criticism","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}