Excerpt: Why should we believe the scientists about climate change? Nobody — not even any individual scientist — understands all the details of the IPCC’s recent 1552 page “summary” of climate science. So why buy into the idea that tiny amounts of gases from beneficial energy production can cause devastating global harm? Part of the reason is that scientists have had a great track record. We trust our lives to supercomputer calculations about wing shapes and aerodynamics, despite the obvious fact that a hundred-ton hunk of metal obviously can’t fly. We take medicines that rely on the absurd notion that illnesses are caused by tiny invisible creatures called germs. We convict criminals based on the bizarre notion that human beings are built from a chemical code recorded on tiny molecules scattered all through their bodies. I’m writing this on a laptop that relies on transistors which are based on quantum mechanics, a theory that even Einstein thought was too crazy to be true. Believing in science has turned out to be a very good bet.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:11:22 +0000
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