22 August 2011  Ink Blots, Ambiguity and Outcomes in the Real
World  A fundamental problem with climate science in the public
realm, as conventionally practiced by the IPCC, is the essential
ink blot nature of its presentation. By "ink blot" I mean that
there is literally nothing that could occur in the real world
that would allow those who are skeptical of scientific claims to
revise their views due to unfolding experience. That is to say,
anything that occurs with respect to the climate on planet earth
is "consistent with" projections made by the climate science
community. Some scientists go further and argue that climate
science cannot be shown to be incorrect based on experience
because its projections are probabilistic. The result is that 
people tend to see in climate science other things than those
that can be resolved empirically -- which fosters politicization
and tribal behavior.  The ink blot nature of climate science
would be a non-issue if it were a field like philosophy or
cosmology in which peo