Max More on global warming
Max More, founder of the Extropy Institute, and one of the few futurist thinkers with a solid understanding of the philosophy of science, outlines his current views on the global warming controversy after being identified as a “denier” and “anti-science” by some of his (transhumanist) critics:
We skeptics (okay, “planetary traitors” if you prefer) actually hold a wide range of views. I’m tired of being labeled a “denier” of some unspecified received truth.
Follow this link for his current views.
In another blog entry Max weighs in on the concept of climate consensus:
I just can’t see climate modeling as having attained the status of a hard science at this stage. Even if there was a rock solid consensus on some point of interest (rather than on statements that I have no problem with at all), I would not feel rationally compelled to assent to it as I would, for instance, in the case of a consensus among particle physicists who tell me not to worry about strangelets as they start up the Large Hadron Collider
Max More is also the author of one of the most insightful studies on the nature of death and personal identity, The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, Transformation.
