Jan
As Galileo was to the Catholic Church, anthropogenic climate change skeptics are to the Church of Settled Science
As Galileo was to the Catholic Church, anthropogenic climate change skeptics are to the Church of Settled Science. Galileo was denounced “for holding as true the false doctrine” against the Holy Scripture. Sound familiar?
Perhaps this would be a good time to take a look at some quotes of then discredited, silenced, imprisoned and tortured, Galileo Galilei. Then watch the video above to appreciate what’s really going on with the climate change debate today.
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. … Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit… [Galileo Galilei, 1615]
To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. [Galileo Galilei, The Authority of Scripture in Philosophical Controversies]
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. [Galileo Galilei, The Authority of Scripture in Philosophical Controversies]
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. [Galileo Galilei, The Authority of Scripture in Philosophical Controversies]
History surely repeats itself. Today, Pope Al Gore sits at the throne, holding on to the Holy Global Warming Scripture as God’s Word, not to be questioned, and mocking–along with his bishops and blind worshippers–those who clamor for science over faith.
And, again, as history repeats itself, science will eventually win. But the battle will be hard fought and bloody, and as in the days of Galileo, nothing less than freedom is at stake.
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The battle for freedom has always been hard fought and bloody and it always will be. We live in a time dominated by men and women who have forgotten that freedom always requires a fight or they have forgotten the value of freedom. Our universities should be teaching this. Our professors should be encouraged to march to their own drummer. Everything good in science has come from one or another eccentric or rebel. Science must not be bent to the service of productivity, justice, or salvation. Teach all who wish to be scientists that their future is a bloody and bitter fight that might produce not glory but scientific truth.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict
(Telegraph)
“Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned. …..Weather patterns were more like those in the late 1970s, experts said, while Met Office figures released on Monday are expected to show that the country is experiencing the coldest winter for up to 25 years.”
I’ve watched the ‘debate’ around prosecuting the use of torture founder through impeachment and more. Most Americans aren’t aware of the dramas in Holland and Spain surrounding fallout from American activities in Congress in 2002 : The American Serviceman’s Protection Act.
War crimes will not be prosecuted because of it.
I’d rather you didn’t find your drive for accountability and recompense run afoul of a similar immovable object : fixed foreign policy designed to protect U.S. access to world resources. One might well say ‘by hook or by crook’ and realize the crook part inapplicable to those who have an unlimited budget to make and break law. Here’s what set me off down the Climategate road last month…not even a primarily scientific consideration.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/sci_techs/3423init_warming_hoax.html
You will notice the NPT integral to this. Afghanistan,etc. Dec 20 at Opit’s LinkFest! has a look at that.
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Remember that it was the left-wing philosophy of the day that had infiltrated the Church.
Like now, they have infiltrated almost everything including the air we breathe, and soon maybe, the colours of the rainbow. Already, what looks green on the outside is red on the inside.
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Actually Galileo was not tortured, he was only put under house arrest, and a relatively mild one at that. Still, there is an important point to the analogy: AGW has definitely taken on the characteristics of a religious like dogma rather than remaining a scientific hypothesis.
E pur si muove!
In brief, Galileo also didn’t prove heliocentrism; he mistakenly believed the planets’ orbits were perfectly circular, which caused problems with his observed data that critics pointed out and that he couldn’t explain; many Churchmen supported him, including the one whose palazzo was the site of his house arrest (where he was allowed all of his books and equipment); he planned that his book on heliocentrism was to be published after his death, so he was mocking the Pope, a friend of his before his election, for his geocentrism in it; the “and yet it moves” quote was a later (19th Century IIRC) fabrication; and, BTW, Luther was also a geocentrist.
It’s a lazy analogy, even if a common one*, and isn’t required to criticize the Warmenists of today on the facts let alone enough to justify having search tags for “Catholic Church” and “Galileo”.
*Especially I’ve noticed by scientifically-illiterate journalists (of the sort that believe in AGW) as a stick to beat today’s R.C. Church with over social issues.