19 Nov. 2013
The older I get, the less interest I have in the wisdom of
youth.
This sign of old age was reinforced by the unfortunate
example of youthful wisdom proffered by Mohawk student D.R., who
unburdened himself of his insights into global warming in the referenced
article.
R.’s resume is void of scientific education or
experience. Thus he used the word ‘traditionally’ without a second
thought, as in “Traditionally, scientists shy away from linking specific
weather events with climate change.” Scientists do not do so out of
tradition, but out of a desire to avoid looking foolish. In the first place,
to link specific weather events with climate change is to confute weather with
climate. Secondly, it is an error to assign a single specific cause to a
weather event. R. lacks the experience to distinguish between tradition
and habit.
Further along, R. let loose the howler that “IPCC
publications are the most diligently vetted scientific documents ever
produced.” The joke in that line is how widely known many of the IPCC
claims have proven to be false through the lack of vetting.
Even the IPCC, in its most recent publication, has had to admit that no
global warming has taken place in the last fifteen years. But you won’t
find that consideration in R.’s work of wisdom.
Making an altogether philosophical leap, R. concludes that
the world’s problem with global warming is on the way to solution by Canada
finding a Prime Minister who has a competent strategy to solve the
problem. The trouble is, competence is a human trait, not a trait of
strategy. But a competent Canadian Prime Minister with a strategy is not
going to solve the alleged problem of global warming so long as billions in the
third world live in poverty and seek to the means to a better life.
When he gets older, Mr. R. will be satisfied with a
Canadian Prime Minister who does not screw up the means of Canadians living a
better life. That is competence in a Prime Minister.
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