What The Caine Mutiny Can Teach Us about Global Warming Scientists
Well, at least when you were wrong about cosmic expansion you didn’t expect the country to disable its economy based on your understanding.
I recently read an essay called Science and Trans=Science by Alvin M. Weinberg, dealing with the problems of applying science to public policies. He makes the statement, “the attempts to deal with social problems through the procedures of science hang on the answers to questions which can be asked of science and yet which cannot be answered by science.” Some of these issues he gave as examples were “Biological Effects of Low-level Radiation Insults,” “The probability of extremely improbable events,” such as the probability of Hoover Dam being destroyed by an earthquake.
We know there have been huge catastrophes in the Earth’s past and that some of these, such as tsunamis resulting from landslide from islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans hitting our coasts are pretty certain to occur, but I don’t see anybody trying to shore up the Hawaiian or Canary Islands. Why not? Because the environmental movement hasn’t found a way to use those events to raise funds.
