It’s not a leftist, lunatic conspiracy theory, but it is. You can’t have it both ways.

Science works by building up evidence for theories, when the evidence is good, the theory is accepted. Works for all other areas of science, why not AGW?

By definition a group delusion is a consensus, a case of groupthink. Rather than being essential, it is, I think, accidental but not surprising that the groupthink favours a collectivist mindset.

The way things are threatening at the moment, they seem set to do terrible damage to all.

Yours sincerely,

Christopher Game

I have the best authority. Whatever you think, it must be the opposite.

Group delusion it surely is, but based on consensus as well – notice that the whole intellectual edifice of AGW is, writing metaphorically, 1% of physical fact and 99% of computerised modelling, a digital version of group think compressed into a small package. It is inseperable from the collectivist mindset that seems locked into an imaginative or virtual world that keeps being knocked off balance by physical reality.

It’s the collateral damage this lot inflict on the rest of us that is of concern, a sort of Uber “unintended” consequences from ill-thought policy based on emotions and not empirical facts.

The Ryan back page column in Quadrant touched on this very topic some time ago, but alas, I cannot remember quickly, which issue.

And absolute certainty is simply an ossified thinking pattern.

Oh and SJT, arrant nonsense? You surely are relying on authority, no? Certainly not from personal competence in the fields you airily dismiss.

SJT; fair enough, although technically the WHO is now independent of the UN; but in any event it just goes to show that nothing is completely bad.

You write: “can only be put down to one of the wonders of the delusional capacities of the human mind”

I agree with you. AGW is best not considered as a conspiracy: that would give it too much credit by making it seem partly somehow rational even if misconceived. It is, I think, as you say, a group delusion. I think they are mostly insightless and really, in some sense, believe in it.”

My irony meter just blew up. Stop thinking that arrant nonsense such as G&T and Miskoclzi make any sense, and we might be able to start having a sensible discussion.

You write: “can only be put down to one of the wonders of the delusional capacities of the human mind”

I agree with you. AGW is best not considered as a conspiracy: that would give it too much credit by making it seem partly somehow rational even if misconceived. It is, I think, as you say, a group delusion. I think they are mostly insightless and really, in some sense, believe in it.

Yours sincerely,

Christopher Game