Climate Change: Changing science to fit agendas

When I had the opportunity recently to become violently ill from a stomach virus I knew that it was the bad cake I had eaten the evening before. However, no one else became ill from eating the cake, just me but it had to be the cake, didn’t it? Well, no it didn’t.

We as human beings react to stimuli in an interesting and almost psychotic way. If we vomit, what we last ate must have caused it! What else could it have been?

The virus I had quietly incubated for days prior to my becoming ill was the real culprit. But I was sure it was the cake I had eaten the previous night. The way some view climate change is very similar to this reaction. The weather is changing and we look for the easiest explanation for it to satisfy our hunger for answers. We need immediate answers to everything, even if those answers are not really accurate.

If the weather is changing, it has to be caused by man! Doesn’t it? No it really does not. If we all take a step (or ten) back from the sky is falling mentality of Al Gore, we might be able to slow down enough to make an educated decision. We may actually see other possibilities.

Human beings thirst for answers. We have such an ingrained genetic desire to know everything, that even science and physics will alter itself to satisfy that need. Unanswered questions leave scientists with a feeling of inadequacy. Many scientists think they have answers to just about everything so naturally the remaining questions get sucked up into the vacuum of theory. For some less initiated into intellectual circles, these empirical notions can then twist into fact.

My point; not all of what we see is fact. Not all of what we know is true.

Today's Pillory guest: Al Gore's Scientists

Dave