Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Global Climate Change on December 27th, 2010

It’s cold. It’s snowing. My brother is stuck in Europe. My brother-in-law postponed his trip to Florida due to the blizzard. Isn’t it suppose to be warming? Yet the global warming people persist.  Here’s what those who claim to honor science don’t get.

Karl Popper, the late, great philosopher of science, noted that for something to be called scientific, it must be, as he put it, “falsifiable.” That is, for something to be scientifically true, you must be able to test it to see if it’s false. That’s what scientific experimentation and observation do. That’s the essence of the scientific method

Unfortunately, the prophets of climate doom violate this idea. No matter what happens, it always confirms their basic premise that the world is getting hotter. The weather turns cold and wet? It’s global warming, they say. Weather turns hot? Global warming. No change? Global warming. More hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? You guessed it….read more

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