The search for "knowledge" is hunter-gatherer behaviour, based on the ancient pre-"civilized" brain.
The search for "knowledge" leads to Scapegoat or object-in-themiddle- rituals, in which power is ALWAYS exercises over the middle, even to the degree of destroying it.

All forms of "knowledge", without exception, are attempts to gain power and control over the apparent random chaos of the world process.

Apart from contemplative philosophers such as Plotinus and perhaps Socrates too, all of Western philosophy and its associated "knowledge" has always sought to gain power and control over masses of human beings - even all human beings. And even total power and control over nature too.

This power-and-control-seeking motive took off really big time after the European Renaissance and the subsequent rise of the culture based on, or patterned by the ideology of scientism. BIG TIME to the point where everything, that is all of humankind and the natural world, has been encircled as the object-in-the-middle Scapegoat, and is now being systematically destroyed.

I would argue that ALL of those on the right side of the culture wars, the so called "conservatives", are all big time boosters and defenders of this now almost irreversible destructive process.

In starting this article, Marko entered a totally dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. He went on quite a journey. Will he ever find the place where he went in?

Wow! The philosophical approach to climate change scepticism. This guy has a PhD and it shows.

As for his argument, climate scepticism rests on quite a few points, not just the ones he mentions. In any case he's looking at the wrong area. The dire warnings with which we are all familiar involve forecasting systems, which include assumptions and feedback effects. Most of the so called "proof" that those dire warnings will bear any relation to reality involves back testing with forecasting systems. Yet the study of forecasting systems is a business subject, specifically in marketing. Where the use of experts as a guide to decision making has been studied, that has also been done as a part of business studies (although statisticians have become involved of late).

So sorry Marko, although you make some interesting points, you're philsophising about the wrong area..

Sorry mate, it is happening, or it ain't. Having decided that, we then have to figure out why it is, or isn't happening.

Philosophy has nothing to do with it.

Incidentally, a PhD in what?

I do recall some bloke getting one for a dissertation on shaving. I'm sure he was then qualified to talk about climate change too.

Anyone these days, that does not believe there is something about the climate, is either a skeptic or religious.

<<Anyone these days, that does not believe there is something about the climate, is either a skeptic or religious>>

And –judging by what appears on OLO – anyone who believes in (anthropogenic) climate change is either a Labor party hack, or worse, a Green’s hack. And only *believes* in it ‘cause his/her party told them so.