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Andrew N's avatar

I might be wrong, but my brief reading on the case, it never judges whether climate science is right or wrong, it judged on whether you can attack someone based on their beliefs? So either side of the interpretation of science should be able to voice their views.

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An attack on all of science, that sounds about right. Science should always be under attack. It seems to me, science has always worked that way. Truly revolutionary ideas did not arise without strenuous defense of the status quo and the upstart new ideas.

Science has never been about the absolute truth. That is more appropriately pursued within the realms of religion. Science should be about the objective (repeatable) observations and synthesis of unifying concepts that allow a particular level of predictability, and above all it must be falsifiable. If either observations or concepts are challenged it must be a through the ability to falsify the original understanding.

It seems our understanding of climate science is far from complete, based on that observation, nothing should be left unchallenged, if our understanding is to have a chance to evolve towards something better. The most obvious example, and, most easily challenged, is the modelling of such a complex and chaotic system. The predictions of these models are there for everyone to see. They have not been stellar, even with the range of models that have been considered. the predictions do not even provide a good error bar of the observations. This is on top of the fact, that, the observations, are neither complete or well isolated.

Ah, this is just a bit of frustrated ranting, better presented by so many others. This type of thin skinned scientists reaction towards criticism is just so anti-science that it makes me wonder if we are headlong towards a neo-darkage. The need of settling the situation by court is so reminiscent of the inquisition during the middle ages.

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