And the longer we go without much of anything happening - certainly not at the national level and sparsely at the local level - the closer we see those tipping point that the best of science is warning us about.

So good on ya for writing that article and may more people begin to do something about it.

I don’t know if that’s enough to change the debate. I wish it would. But as someone who has worked thru (struggled) with Rationalism, Empiricism and Kants ‘Pure Reason’ I wasn’t confused (I think) with what the IPCC and Climatologists meant by consensus. That the IPCC report is just the minimum possible political consensus that the UN could put out and that what actually is going to happen could be worse.

Louis Pasteur ran a test on sheep and anthrax. Fifty sheep were given the anthrax vaccine and fifty sheep were not given the vaccine and they were all put into a grass field that had anthrax and were allowed to graze. After 48 hours all the sheep that were vaccinated were alive and all the sheep that weren’t were dead. Before the test, the scientific consensus of the Sorbonne’s and world wide scientists was that Pasteur was wrong, it’s not little bugs that made people sick, it’s the failure of our body organs that caused us to get sick and die. The scientists didn’t think that little things like microbiology could affect big things like our body. The opinion of Louis Pasteur meant nothing to these scientists who laughed at Pasteur’s theory, until the test. They didn’t believe in the opinion of Pasteur, only the test. Except after the test and then they listened to Pasteur’s opinion.

Climatologists just have to be really right about something that will save millions of lives, then people will listen to you. To late? That is the tragedy, isn’t it.

Maybe you are on to something, but how do you teach millions of people the philosophy of science in so little time?

An old GF used to receive weekly envelopes from multitudinous fuzzy-bunny environmentalist organizations, all pleading weekly for money to solve some crisis.

Now I’m sure that the alarmism got old for millions, fostering an environment where ‘alarmist’ can be tossed around like an epithet (like ‘liberal’) for anything denialists oppose.

Trouble is, these fuzzy-bunny organizations know that there is too much for all of us to pay attention to, therefore we need extra help to have our attention drawn to x, y, or z.

“Lord! save us from outrage fatigue!”

Best,

D

Hope it plays well in Peoria…

http://biopact.com/ 2008/ 02/ scientists-find-subtle-wind-variations.html