Scott Adams: In his own words
By popular demand, I pulled together the Dilbert comics that mention blockchain, Bitcoin, or cryptocurrency. You can find these or any other Dilbert comic by keyword searches on the main Dilbert.com page. And if any of the situations in this collection look familiar, you might want to check out my startup’s ICO that…
Read MoreThis idea in today’s Wall Street Journal [link available, alternative archive] talks about creating a “Red Team” to dig into the climate science debate and come up with a conclusion for the public. I call that a good system. Systems are better than goals. A goal, in this case, might be to “Convince the…
Read MoreWhen I see an obvious case of cognitive dissonance in the news, I like to point it out so you can see reality through what I call the Persuasion Filter. Today’s example comes from an article in SLATE [archive] about climate change. The author, Tim Requarth [archive], correctly points out that facts and logic…
Read MoreNine minutes of me talking about the EPA changes and when to invest in fixing climate change.
Read MoreI worry that climate scientists think the skeptics are just dumb. I’m sure there are plenty of dumb people on every topic, but I’m here to suggest that the bigger problem might be a form of pattern recognition. I’ll take you through that thought. I’ll start by displaying my own…
Read MoreNote: If you came here from Twitter, I use “kittens” as my code for climate science to thwart Twitter’s shadowban on my tweets. — You probably know that actor Leonardo DiCaprio is a climate activist, and he is trying to persuade the world that climate change is both real and serious. Someone…
Read MoreHere’s a link to a smart person who does a better job than I did at explaining the problems with climate models [archive]. I mentioned on social media a few times that I am using public persuasion to split the climate science debate into two parts. One part is the basic…
Read MoreI don’t know much about science, and even less about climate science. So as a practical matter, I like to side with the majority of scientists until they change their collective minds. They might be wrong, but their guess is probably better than mine. That said, it is mind-boggling to…
Read MoreI will bet anyone $1 million dollars that I can come up with a climate forecast model that ignores C02 and still predicts the temperature 30 years from now to within half a degree. Does anyone want to take that bet? Obviously there is a trick involved, so I won’t…
Read MoreHere is the best (and weirdest) example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. The set-up is that Bill Nye, an engineer by training, and a proponent of science, is defending climate science on Tucker’s show. The first weird thing is that Bill Nye starts by talking about cognitive dissonance…
Read MoreToday I declare the climate science “debate” to be mostly an illusion. You think you live in a world in which there are climate science skeptics on one side of the debate, and climate scientists, plus their believers, on the other side. And you think they are talking about the same thing. That…
Read MoreOne of the most famous statistics in the world of politics is the claim that 97% of climate scientists agree with the idea that humans activity is boosting CO2 to dangerous levels. Critics say the 97% is misleading, because the critics like to include in their own list the scientists…
Read MoreIt seems to me that the big problem with the climate change debate is that no one would recognize a good argument if they saw one. We only think we have the ability to recognize a good argument. What actually happens is that cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias generally keep a wall…
Read MoreLet me start this post by restating that I agree with the scientific consensus on climate change. I’m not a scientist and I have no tools to evaluate the credibility of those who are. As far as I can tell, the arguments on both sides are totally credible. I can’t…
Read MoreYesterday I kicked the hornet’s nest by suggesting that no scientist really believes that complicated models with lots of variables can reliably predict the future. This is a subset of my larger point that no non-scientist can evaluate the claims of climate science because BOTH sides look 100% convincing to the under-informed. …
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