Global Warming Alarmists

Letter to the Register

Sirs,
The position of letter writer Feeney and most of the global warming alarmists is that it is the responsibility of the skeptics to prove that the global warming hypothesis is wrong. This is why they must continually invoke “consensus”: “Everyone but a few of you skeptics agrees”. So, if the skeptics can’t disprove global warming, then we all are obligated to comply with the measures to combat the threat. But that is not how science works. The burden of proof is on the alarmists. To many of us (I have advanced degrees in physics and mathematics) global warming cannot be proved nor refuted because it is not science. It is merely elementary curve fitting to highly massaged data. And if the curves match the data, the theory must be correct, right? Now how can one disprove that?
R

Now go out there and buy some incandescent light bulbs!