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A good and long piece on climate change

OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
Courtesy of the economist, which I really find quite good on their features.
the article wrote:
In any complex scientific picture of the world there will be gaps, misperceptions and mistakes. Whether your impression is dominated by the whole or the holes will depend on your attitude to the project at hand. You might say that some see a jigsaw where others see a house of cards. Jigsaw types have in mind an overall picture and are open to bits being taken out, moved around or abandoned should they not fit. Those who see houses of cards think that if any piece is removed, the whole lot falls down. When it comes to climate, academic scientists are jigsaw types, dissenters from their view house-of-cards-ists.

Read it all at
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.c ... d=15719298

Peace
Dan
"YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    thanks for posting ... i only got thru a bit just now ...

    we should all read it ... that is if you care about hearing an opinion on it that may or may not suit yours ... ;)
  • stardust1976stardust1976 Posts: 1,301
    OutOfBreath wrote:
    Courtesy of the economist, which I really find quite good on their features.
    the article wrote:
    In any complex scientific picture of the world there will be gaps, misperceptions and mistakes. Whether your impression is dominated by the whole or the holes will depend on your attitude to the project at hand. You might say that some see a jigsaw where others see a house of cards. Jigsaw types have in mind an overall picture and are open to bits being taken out, moved around or abandoned should they not fit. Those who see houses of cards think that if any piece is removed, the whole lot falls down. When it comes to climate, academic scientists are jigsaw types, dissenters from their view house-of-cards-ists.

    Read it all at
    http://www.economist.com/displaystory.c ... d=15719298

    Peace
    Dan

    Good analogy. We need more jigsaw types, IMO.
    http://giventoart.blogspot.com.au
  • OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Yeah, I really liked that analogy.

    Science is a jigsaw. You find different pieces that you then seek to make a picture out of.

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
  • OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    I'm gonna give this one last bump, for those who still may not have noticed it.

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
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