It isn’t just climate change where we see blunders being made daily, the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists are often useful, and they learned from them (unlike some dogmatic climate scientists we can name).
Renowned astrophysicist Mario Livio explores and analyzes major errors committed by such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein. During a live public lecture webcast on June 1, 2016, astrophysicist and author Dr. Mario Livio looked at major missteps made by some of history’s greatest scientists, and explained why blunders are actually an integral part of the scientific process.
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This was a wonderful and insightful lecture by a scientist with a great sense of humor.
CAGW is an example of stupid blunders because there is now sufficient disparity and duration to completely disconfirm ALL the silly CAGW hypothetical projections for: ECS, ocean pH, sea level rise, increasing trends of severe weather intensity/frequency, polar ice loss, etc.
What makes CAGW a stupid “scientific” blunder is that the huge disparities between CAGW projections vs. reality are well known. To avoid hypothetical disconfirmation, CAGW advocates: “adjust” empirical data to better match projections, ignore data they don’t like, attack scientists that dare question the efficacy of CAGW, withhold research grants to scientists unsupportive of CAGW, fail to expose known fallacies (97% consensus lie, ocean acidification lie, Antarctic ice loss lie, increasing severe weather trends lie, “unprecedented” global warming lie, etc.)
CAGW is actually a political phenomenon, not a physical one. Politics must be removed from science, which can only be done by ending all public funding of scientific research (with the exception of research for national defense).
Until all public scientific research funding ends, we’ll always risk multi-trillion dollar scams like CAGW.
I like Mario’s lectures and particularly for this blog, I like one of his perceptive quotes: “One of the most important things that distinguishes science from religion is that in science we (eventually) are happy to change our minds. This is called learning”.
The warmists might take heed….
emsnews says rocks >grow< smaller and smaller… interesting terminology!
At the beginning he talks about the peppered moth as an example of evolution. However that was a fraud and I’m surprised he doesn’t know that. Peppered moths hang from the underside of upper branches of trees, they don’t land on the trunk so the changing colour would have no effect on their evolution. In order to make their case, the originators of the fraud glued moths to the trees to photograph them and even went so far as to add speckles to some of them. Why doesn’t he know about that? He needs to find a better (real) example.
Einstein knew that his equation predicted an expanding universe. An expanding universe means it had a beginning. A beginning implies a beginner, a creator. He inserted the cosmological constant in order to avoid and expanding universe and a creator. Only when Hubble proved the universe is expanding did he acknowledge that his original theory was right and from then on he maintained that there must be some kind of intelligent creator. He didn’t believe in God but rather in something like a scientist to whom we are like bacteria.
“…We are continuously taught that progress in science is a direct march to the truth…Nothing could be further from the truth. Progress in science is achieved through a zigzag path with many, many false starts, many blind alleys, many places where we need to go back to the starting point.”
But of course, this doesn’t apply to AGW theory. It has been handed down to us from above by the infallible high priests of Climatology, whose right hands are in the collection plate, and whose Left hands are busy elsewhere, doing Leftist things. Lysenko is alive and well in the halls of academia and learned societies.