Posted by
Michael Babbitt on Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:03:31 AM
After reviewing the debate over the past few years, one thing really strikes me: Why isn't the focus and imagination of scientists centered around how global warming is naturally occurring instead of this tortured accumulation and selective use of proxies and other data sets? Why isn't the onus on the AGW advocates to prove that the data cannot be interpreted by other set of theories. Whatever happened to Occam's Razor? Jumping to the conclusion that C02 is the only reason possible for explaining warmer temperatures is not an expression of the principle of Occam's Razor. Instead, it is a sign of sloppy thinking and mental laziness. Shouldn't there be a wall of non-anthropogenic global warming theories that account for the current warming that the AGW theorists should have to truly break through? I guess groupthink and money (funding) have distorted the scientific community and media. Perhaps we should propose that AGW is the pet theory of George W. Bush. Then you would see the fury released and AGW would quickly become a laughingstock.