Don Aitken, in answering a remark that "unless the sceptical minority came up with their own theory about how and why climate changes they would never be taken seriously."
My answer to that is that we sceptics are not asking for anything. The alarmists want to severely contract the West's economies with their calls to kill man's emissions of carbon dioxide.
Don's reply was:
My answer to that is that we sceptics are not asking for anything. The alarmists want to severely contract the West's economies with their calls to kill man's emissions of carbon dioxide.
Don's reply was:
.....one doesn’t need one’s own theory in order to see weaknesses in another. If they are there, you can point out weaknesses in any theory — you don’t have to argue from the position of a rival theory.
Or, perhaps, a sceptic can start from the position of the null hypothesis: there is nothing to explain.Then Don found another site - Fabius Maximus -
The Editor of the site, in reviewing new survey findings about the supposed ‘consensus’ of climate scientists, said that there were two debates, one about science the other about policy, which were often conflated, but that until sceptics developed their own theory they would always be in a minority.Don wrote a reply: