Jan
18
2010
How Opinions and Guesses Become Policy
Here’s a story that shows how little evidence there can be behind the things we’re taught as settled fact by governments and media. (Hat tip: Illinois Pedant.) The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which wants the power to tell us all how big a car we can have and how often we can use our backyard grills, made a claim that all the glaciers in the Himalayas would melt by the year 2035 due to global warming, with a 90% degree of certainty. And of course, therefore we must Do Something. Now it turns out that claim was based on one guy’s guess. The meat of the article: Read more »
