Open Thread

Eamon Butler,
Keating is wrong.
An example of proving a negative would be when someone says, for example, “Prove that humans aren’t causing global warming.” That’s like saying, “Prove that aliens aren’t walking among us.”
Proving that something is not happening is an example of trying to prove a negative. Rather, science tries to show what is happening, and to provide a credible explanation.
Keating says:
Remember, the challenge was to people to step forward and do what they have been claiming they can do.
The alarmist crowd claims that they can show that human emissions cause global warming. But when skeptics ask them for verifiable, testable, measurable evidence quantifying the fraction of a degree warming that is directly attributable to human CO2 emissions, there never seems to be any such evidence. Thus, their claim is nothing more than a conjecture; an opinion.
No one is denying global warming. That has been going on since the LIA. But are humans causing it? There is still no scientific evidence supporting that conjecture.
Keating is a scoundrel. He never had any intention of paying anything. If he was honest, he would have placed the money into an escrow account, and arranged for it to be administered by a widely respected neutral third party such as a university, like M.I.T. The fact that he is acting as his own judge and jury shows that this was just a publicity stunt.