Saturday, May 11, 2019

Fans of Best of the Web Today

See the source imageFans of Best of the Web Today--Matt Cederholm
"Milton Friedman wrote a famous essay in which he posited that a model should not be judged by the validity of its assumptions, but by how well it predicts what happens in the real world.
On both, actually, climate models have failed abjectly.
The temperature trends lie well below the 5% projection, even when the models are refined. Arguments that the heat is "hiding in the ocean" or somesuch are a tacit admission that we don't understand the climate well enough. 
They are an admission that the models failed.
Much of the climate change cult uses global warming as an excuse to restrain capitalism.
It is a religious movement based on expressions of faith such as "settled science."
Its goal is not to save the planet, but to institute socialism.
The proof of their intent is their objection to nuclear power, which is the superior choice on almost every margin.."
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