The cartoonist responsible for the “Dilbert” strip has decided to expand his reach into writing on climate science. His first endeavor is such an excellent example of the self delusional mind doing it’s best to rationalize and embrace an avoidance of fundamental reality that I’ve decide to make a case study of it.
Victor Venema at VariableVariablity.blogspot.com has already written an interesting fairly detailed rebuttal at “Scott Adams: The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science” and I recommend it because Victor, in keeping with his serious scientific sensibilities, offers Scott Adams’ the benefit of the doubt and takes the time to explain why Adams’ claims are misleading.
However, Scott Adams’ words convince me that his is nothing more than another cynical con game utilizing well worn tactics of strategic denial. His exercise had nothing to do with an honest person trying to constructively explain his misgivings in an effort at better understanding.
In this review I intent to focus on examining his disingenuous contrivances.
First off please notice, rather than focusing on reviewing climate science fundamentals and known facts, Adams distracts with ‘slight of phrasing’ to draw the discussion away from where it needs to go, all the while striving to surreptitiously inoculate his audience with distrust and confusion at every turn.
The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science, by Scott Adams
December 5th, 2016 - tagged: #trump, #climate science
It seems to me that a majority of experts could be wrong whenever you have a pattern that looks like this
- A theory has been “adjusted” in the past to maintain the conclusion even though the data has changed. For example, “Global warming” evolved to “climate change” because the models didn’t show universal warming.
