Climate Socrates: Announcement

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Doofinator Invades Blogspace

Notorious global warming heretic and skeptic, The Respected Doofinator, has announced his intrusion into internet blogspace.

News of his presence was greeted with disbelief, shock, and horror in the Global Warming Community.

The effects of The Respected Doofinator's arrival were difficult to gauge, said one blog expert: "As far as we know, sales of Al Gore's books and DVD's have not been affected, but we are watching the situation closely".

A spokesman for The Respected Doofinator's camp pledged magnanimity for all members of the internet blogging community and said that he hoped that Global Warming Activists would remain calm and refrain from engaging in activities that might be dangerous or self-destructive.

Books and Readings

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds", Charles MacKay
"Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media", Patrick J. Michaels
"Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming", Patrick J. Michaels
"State of Fear", Michael Crichton
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)", Christopher C. Horner
"The Satanic Gases", Patrick J. Michaels
"The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World", Bjorn Lomborg
"Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years", Dennis T. Avery & S. Fred Singer

The Socratic Method

Perhaps Socrates' most important contribution to Western thought is his dialectic (answering a question with a question) method of inquiry, known as the Socratic Method or method of elenchos, which he largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts such as the Good and Justice. It was first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. To solve a problem you would ask a question and when finding the answer you would also have an answer to your problem. This led to the beginning of the Scientific Method, in which the first step says to name the problem in the form of a question. For this, Socrates is customarily regarded as the father of political philosophy and ethics or moral philosophy, and as a fountainhead of all the main themes in Western philosophy in general. (The method may have been suggested by Zeno of Elea , but Socrates refined it and applied it to ethical problems.)In this method, a series of questions are posed to help a person or group to determine their underlying beliefs and the extent of their knowledge. The Socratic method is a negative method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those which lead to contradictions. It was designed to force one to examine his own beliefs and the validity of such beliefs. In fact, Socrates once said, "I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."

Climate Socrates

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Doofinator Invades Blogspace