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GLOBAL WARMING

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1		PROBLEMS WITH THE EVIDENCE FOR ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ Or why I don’t believe in man-made global warming
Historical and Investigative Research – 7 December 2009 [last updated: 19 May 2010] by Francisco Gil-White http://www.hirhome.com/global_warming.htm ( The author is a Ph.D. in biological and cultural anthropology with a specialization in evolutionary theory and in the study of ideological and institutional systems. )
█ Introduction █ What I am not saying █ What about the ice core evidence? ■ Ice Core Evidence (Case 1) ■ Ice Core Evidence (Case 2) █ Climategate: Deep problems in the anthropogenic camp ■ Is it really that warm?

“When is an inference from a premise, p, to a conclusion, c, reasonable? If an inference is made by the mainstream of a scientific community, is it not reasonable, for is not science the epitome of rationality? While scientists value rationality, they too are fallible and mainstreams sometimes fail under social pressures… Next, the idea that scientists’ inferences define reasonableness is authoritarian because it would make criticism of established thought unreasonable, whereas criticism may progress science; and subjectivist, because it locates reasonableness not in the objective character of inferences, but in relations between inferences and particular groups. An inference from p to c is reasonable only if p supports c…” [1]