The Time I Nudged Climate Scientists into Debunking their Own Models

Guest Post by Scott Adams

If you have been reading this blog and following me on Periscope, you know I announced I was going to use my own powers of persuasion to nudge climate scientists into doing a better job of communicating their side of things. The climate models are the least-credible thing scientists do, and yet scientists have been using their models as their featured evidence. No matter which side you are on with the climate change debate, you don’t want either side using their weakest argument. You want both sides to do their best so we can accurately judge who has the strongest thinking. To that end, I framed the “climate models” as being necessarily incomplete because you really need economic models to decide how to react to climate change, not scientific models. And long-term economic models have zero credibility. Even scientists would agree on that point.

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Evidently I applied enough persuasion to generate this video that attempts to debunk my debunking of climate models. But it does so by…devaluing their own models. That’s what I was trying to do too. We’re on the same page.

Watch the clip for the Absurd Absolute tell for cognitive dissonance that happens at ten seconds in. The scientist defines the opposition argument with the absurd absolutes “anything” and  “everything.” Whenever you see your opposition create a strawman argument with absurd absolutes, it means you won the debate. You only see this behavior when the opposition has no response to your real argument; they have to transform it into an absurd absolute in order to have any response at all.

I told you I was going to rewire this global debate exactly this way. I did this as a demonstration of the power of persuasion.

Now, do you still think President Trump’s branding of the Losers is just name-calling?

It isn’t.

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musket
musket

It’s a damn computer model. Change the values in the computation and get whatever result you want. It’s just like the polls the media uses to “prove” their globalist conclusions……it’s all b/s.

Bostonbob

Musket,
Great screen name.
Bob.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

Models vs Observable Data = Models FAIL

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