The Church of Man
Back in the early 1500s, astronomers had a real problem calculating the location of the planets and the sun. The religion of the time required that planets and sun orbit the earth, and so astronomers used horrendously complicated calculations to do their work. Astronomers knew from the time of the ancient Greeks that planetary motion made a lot more sense if they made the assumption that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun instead. The numbers were off a bit, but that was because their religious belief was that the heavens were perfect, and objects could only move in perfect circles. Orbits are more of an ellipse. But even without knowing that, planetary movement made a whole lot more sense with the sun at the center rather than the Earth. And if they had overcome their first preconception, the second would have been solved fairly quickly.
That, however, required ignoring their human-centric religion, and so, for the most part, they stuck with their complicated calculations.
Move forward to the early 2000s. It turns out that if you take the current major climate model and remove the human-centric belief in man-made global warming suddenly the climate model becomes both simpler and more accurate. Hat tip to AJStrata.
- Heliocentrism at Wikipedia
- “The Greek Aristarchus of Samos, in the 3rd century BC, was the first known person to speculate that the Earth revolves around a stationary sun.”
- Reformation In The Church Of Al Gore/IPCC?
- “Now another IPCC group has come out and proven that the Ocean water temperatures can be shown to have caused the global warming we have seen recently—not CO2 (man-made or otherwise). What this group did was run those models at the Church of Al Gore/IPCC which keep screaming ‘the world is going to end unless you pay high taxes on energy’ on their outputs but with a different set of assumptions. They DELETED the CO2 factor and just ran them with Ocean Temperature measurements. Guess what happened?”
- Rethinking Observed Warming
- “Atmospheric model simulations of the last half-century with prescribed observed ocean temperature changes, but without prescribed GHG changes, account for most of the land warming.”
More global warming
- Climate priests cry wolf one more time?
- In science, if your theory’s predictions don’t happen, you need a new theory. In religion, if your beliefs predict something that doesn’t happen, you just keep moving that prediction further into the future.
- Can Californians drink a train?
- The meme goes that even if we’re wrong about global warming, the money spent will still make the world a better place. That is only true if you can drink a high-speed train.
- Cargo cult climate science
- When your real-world evidence contradicts your theory, that isn’t a boon for deniers; that’s a boon for you, because, if you are a scientist, that is how your scientific knowledge advances. Real scientists are embarrassed when they ignore real-world evidence in favor of a mere theory.
- Republican President must keep Roosevelt’s word
- Even if a future conservative president doesn’t believe Americans of Japanese descent are disloyal, says Irwin Stelzer, he should think twice before rescinding President Roosevelt’s Executive Orders. The President’s honor—and the nation’s—is more important than politics.
- Another victim of climate change: science reporting
- The needs of religious reporting are completely different from the needs of science reporting. Treating climate change as a religion is killing science reporting. If we’re not careful, it will kill science as well.
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