“People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.” PeopleLoveBelieveLooksLittlesRealSometimesFeelingsEyeVoiceKindnessWifeLove YouEvidenceArgumentAddNotesMy WifeFavorsPlentyRevelationsPriestsDeep InsideBe ConfidentWives Love Book:A Devil's Chaplain Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.” PeopleNeedsLooksHas BeensHardStoriesCoursesAnswersMediaMovementInvolvedSolutionsEvidenceBuiltEnvironmentalDataGlobal WarmingShyPuzzlesPropositionsGet InvolvedCapturedReluctantInsistenceDrasticClout Author:Don Aitkin