The theme acknowledges the fact that claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on unvalidated atmospheric models and post-normal science, which tries to
substitute claims of consensus for the scientific method.
«My view is that there are fundamental faults in the science used to justify mitigatory action by governments;
that claims of a consensus on the IPCC science have no credibility and that account is not taken of the long history of faulty analyses by scientists; that examinat...
There might even be a connection with groupthink — a psychopathology with characteristic attributes — and
claims of a consensus.
Yet in making
the claim of consensus on the issue, Gore ignores the growing number of scientists who are consistently and publically refuting his assertions of eco-catastrophe.
Historically,
the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.