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Kool-Aid

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Published Mon, Oct 15 2007 1:29 AM
Technorati Tags: Global Warming

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I'll admit that I was once a Kool-Aid® drinker. I enjoyed it as I was growing up. Those little packets of food-coloring and flavor powder tasted good in water with sugar. It's a sure bet that it was a lot less expensive than soda pop. It's a shame that the drug culture and Jim Jones' Peoples Temple's 1978 suicide using poisoned Flavor Aid® resulted in the negative connotations of the term “Kool-Aid drinker”.

It's not a good idea to simply accept everything that someone tells you simply because you agree with their ideology. That's what people are implying about someone when they call them a “Kool-Aid drinker”. They're implying that “Kool-Aid drinkers” cannot think for themselves, and by extension that the person they are talking about cannot either.

Thinking is hard work. A lot of people try to avoid it. It's much easier to accept things that people we perceive to be authorities tell us than to think about them critically and to investigate their truthfulness. The sad thing is that often the things we are told by our authority figures are outright lies, or distortions of the truth designed to lead us by the nose.

The “Man Made Global Warming” hysteria that is sweeping the planet is a perfect example. We have it beaten into our heads that CO₂ is a greenhouse gas and a pollutant. Because mankind is burning "fossil fuels" to obtain energy we are dumping huge amounts of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Therefore mankind is ultimately responsible for global warming.

If you point out to someone that believes in man made global warming that the CO₂ signature in atmospheric gasses trapped in ice cores seems to lag by years or decades behind other "temperature" related signatures in the geologic record your statement will be ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. They'll insist that a consensus of scientists has determined that global warming is real, and that mankind is responsible for it.

Are we also responsible for the warming of Mars? Since when was science driven by consensus anyway? I thought that science required a theory and experimental testing to validate or invalidate that theory. Once there was a consensus among authorities that the world was flat. This despite the observations by the ancient Greeks that the world had to be round.

Once there was a consensus among scientists that the Sun orbited the Earth. This despite the fact that the "models" scientists used to describe the universe had to include more and more complicated refinements to fit observations, such as the occasional retrograde motion of the planets.

The consensus argument seems to me to be just another way for those that use it to say that they've been drinking the Kool-Aid.

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It's interesting what passes for “science” these days.

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I've been wondering. Why is it that “human induced climate change” is a “left vs. right” issue anyway? I have some thoughts on that.

For now I'll just state the obvious, although I think it's wrong. The “environmentalists” are all on the left, and they're concerned about the damage we're doing to the environment. Big business and “big oil” are all on the right, and they're concerned about raping the earth to make their ill gotten gains.

That's the simplistic answer, and I think it's wrong. I'll be posting on that later.

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