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Surrendering Your Mind to Experts: Why Have an Opinion at All?

Much of my life is performance art.  Try it sometime.  Pretend to be a global warming denialist.  It's great fun, and very revealing.Some very well-educated people started talking about global warming.  I said that I was skeptical.  Everyone at the table turned against me.  They know we're facing global warming.  So I posed a few questions:1.  Didn't the same experts believe that we were going to face global cooling?2.  What experts have made concrete and verifiable predictions about global tempeature?  3.  Why are they now calling it "climate change" instead of global warming?  These are basic, background facts.  No one had any answer.  They were nonetheless unrelenting.  Global warming exists, and that's the end of it.  After all, the experts say so!I concluded with: I honestly don't know enough to have an opinion...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).