Posts tagged…Gallileo
Dissenters Day
Thu, Sep 11 2008
September 11 is a day of infamy, but also the anniversary of a triumph for Gallilean empricism
.Another Galilean ‘dissenter’
Fri, Jul 18 2008David Evans, ex-GreenHouse Office:
"The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming … Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory." extract from: The Australian
The empricist’s telescope
Thu, Jun 12 2008
"E pur si muove". It seems there's no proof that Galileo ever said this ("And yet…it [the earth] moves, after all").
But it's one of those stories that should be true. Dragged before the Inquisition, Galileo was forced to recant his apparent dissent from the "settled science" of the unmoving earth and the orbiting sun. If he didn't mutter this famous phrase after his recantation, then he should…
Read more…Science, dogma and dissent: Ross Garnaut’s Heinz Arndt lecture
Mon, Jun 09 2008What a disappointment.
I hoped that Prof. Garnaut would use his Heinz Arndt Lecture to describe the balance he intended to strike in his recommendations between evidence for risky climate change and a growing body of evidence that the risks are low to moderate (at most). Given his well-known views, I expected to find the balance tilted in favor of the former but I hoped to find that it would be…