"Thus saith the model" has replaced thus saith the Lord. And models serve the same manipulative purpose that priestly prophets used prophecies for in days gone by: the accumulation of power and wealth via the manipulation of the people. Here's Matt Ridley describing the BBC's bizarre apology for performing its legally mandated requirement to be balanced:
The BBC’s behaviour grows ever more bizarre. Committed by charter to balanced reporting, it has now decided formally that it was wrong to allow balance in a debate between rival guesses about the future. In rebuking itself for having had the gall to interview Nigel Lawson on the Today programme about climate change earlier this year, it issued a statement containing this gem: “Lord Lawson’s views are not supported by the evidence from computer modelling and scientific research.”
Come again? "evidence" from computer modelling? Computer models don't provide evidence they make predictions about the future. We gather evidence in the future to evaluate how accurate their predictions were. In one sentence you have the essential problem with global warming fundamentalism: a religious confusion between prophecy and reality.
The bizarre religious fetishes of extreme global warming and it's concomitant prophesies of droughts, fires, floods and diverse signs and wonders will someday be looked upon as a form of mass psychosis or hysteria among the so called "educated" classes. It will go a long way towards discrediting the wisdom of getting a university education. Not that the universities need any help in fouling their own nests.
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