This is all part of the same pattern that has characterized the alarmists’ approach to climate “science” since the last century. They come up with models and use these to produce predictions which are then baptized as sovereign truth.
In real science, they would have been required to demonstrate the predictive validity of their models before their predictions would be granted any confidence and when observations contradicted predictions, they would have been expected to revise their models instead of beating the data until it fit the model outputs.
Instead, thanks to Algore, Hansen, left-wing politicians looking for regulatory and legislative mechanisms to control the polity and extract more tax dollars, and a compliant left–leaning media hungry for “imminent disaster” headlines, the burden of proof has been shifted to those who challenge the modelers instead of being left where it belongs: with the modelers who still have not demonstrated the validity of their models.
I simply cannot believe we are still discussing a theory that, 20 years after it went mainstream, has yet to produce a single scrap of confirmatory empirical evidence. – Courtesy of a WUWT Commenter





