Subject: Symptoms, Leverage Points, and Knowledge

Posted by Michael Round on 12/6/2009

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I agree arguments about symptoms may distract from leverage points and core problems, However, one cannot abandon the integrity of the system's analysis for the sake of "action".

I don't know if climate-data is essential to the argument on global warming or not. If the theories are true, particularly in the presence of large population growths, we'd expect to see warming temperatures - always. Do we?

Of course not. The history of the earth - even in the last few hundred years - is one of radical temperature changes. Why? Solar activity? Perhaps. But for any theory to be valid, it must take into account these aberrations.

Knowledge of the system explaining ALL DATA - including anomalies - is the goal. How essential to the process was the data that was altered? Actual data likely invalidated parts of the theory, else the data would not have been altered. Instead of analyzing reality and one's knowledge of it, the data-cleansing folks at the CRU sought to abandon reality.

"We're sorry" and "It doesn't invalidate anything" doesn't cut it with me, and I frankly am tired of hearing "We must act dramatically and we must act now or else catastrophe looms." This was the nonsense parading as bold action that gave us TARP and the stimulus.

A rational process of understanding reality is all I'm after. Only with this can actions with predictable results - obtaining the good, fixing the bad, and avoiding the unexpected - take place.

Mike Round
Center for auoSocratic Excellence
www.autoSocratic.com