Just as Climate Truthers and other denialists strive to believe in six impossible things before breakfast, Green powers of credible denial are often strained by :
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF CLIMATE MODELING
Model Greed - The modelers need for scientific citation , adulation, or material wealth. If unfed, the model-greedy may resort to self-citation, plagiarism, dodgy grantsmanship and denial of having lost past bets on model outcomes.
Model Lust - An insatiable desire to believe your own hypotheses, and to insist that models should overrule history, natural and human, and dictate the thoughts and desires of generations to come. Model
Lust feeds on viewing & producing climate porn
Model Envy- The need to command larger research budgets and covet more supercomputer time than rival models or theories , if need be by having competitors defunded or charged with crimes.
Model Sloth - Indifference to the contradiction of models by natural history, coupled with aversion to references that contradict desired results, reluctance to debate, and the inability to feel relief when dire scenarios don't materialize. Victims may insist that
what we don't know doesn't matter.
Model Gluttony - Overindulgence in extreme parameter values in the name of the Precautionary Principle. Metamodeling is Model Gluttony's most fearsome avatar.
Model Lust - An insatiable desire to believe your own hypotheses, and to insist that models should overrule history, natural and human, and dictate the thoughts and desires of generations to come. Model
Lust feeds on viewing & producing climate porn
Model Envy- The need to command larger research budgets and covet more supercomputer time than rival models or theories , if need be by having competitors defunded or charged with crimes.
Model Sloth - Indifference to the contradiction of models by natural history, coupled with aversion to references that contradict desired results, reluctance to debate, and the inability to feel relief when dire scenarios don't materialize. Victims may insist that
what we don't know doesn't matter.
Model Gluttony - Overindulgence in extreme parameter values in the name of the Precautionary Principle. Metamodeling is Model Gluttony's most fearsome avatar.
Model Wrath - Defined by Model Dante as : "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite." People with Model Wrath issues may turn to the law or social engineering when they feel democracy or science has failed them. Left unprovoked, Wrathists may turn to political caricature of their enemies & violent public demonstrations
Text & Seven Deady Sins Emoji copyright MMXV Russell Seitz
