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[quote name="skip"][quote name="instead of reality"][quote name="blackwater"]There are a lot of bad effects from global warming[/quote]Which the author of Dilbert does not deny this likelyhood. It's not about <i>economic issues</i>, as you stated, but confidence in <i>[economic-style] models</i>. Great at showing us a trend of the the past, but not necessarily useful at being predictive (Hence the ever present digs at Mr. Silver). Of course, this does <i>not</i> negate anthropogenic climate impact. I didn't claim that, neither did Dilbert, nor Scott Adams.[/quote][/quote] People like Adams get off on the "implication." He's never said that he endorses climate change and wrote a strip for denialists. Look, if someone keeps giving evidence of what they think, everyone else is allowed to fill in the obvious gaps. Adams: Evolution uses economic models, which have never been right. Everyone else: Intelligent design and creationism have more problems. Are you saying you don't believe in evolution? Adams: I DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT! LOL COGNITIVE DISSONANCE Everyone: So you do believe in evolution? We have good evidence like the fossil record. Adams: [quote]If you are new to the Dilbert Blog, I remind you that I don’t believe in Intelligent Design or Creationism or invisible friends of any sort. I just think that evolution looks like a blend of science and bullshit, and have predicted for years that it would be revised in scientific terms in my lifetime. It’s a hunch – nothing more. The bottom line is that DNA tests (which do not set off my bullshit detector) have shown that you can’t really tell what set of bones begat other sets of bones just by looking at how they differed and how old they are. Apparently evolution is more complex than imagined, and there were lots of ape-people varieties wandering around at the same time. Some had modern features that they weren’t supposed to have. The so-called modern features apparently popped up and disappeared more than once, and in more than one species. My bullshit filter accepts this new information. I was having a hard time with the idea that some goober in tan pants would dig up a bone fragment in Africa and know it was his own (great X 1,000) grandmother. It just didn’t feel right. And now we know, assuming the DNA evidence is solid, that the guy in the tan pants was full of shit. All that the fossils show is that there used to be ape-people who are not us. [/quote] Ape-men. Archeologists who think neanderthal fossils are their grandma. Do you really want to die on this hill, dude?[/quote]