[Pretzel Logic]

Where we diverge seems to be this: I maintain that we cannot even form viable presuppositions in such an environment. We can form working hypotheses (yours being: "Man is causing some degree of warming, the question is how much."), but a working hypothesis is not an established fact. Again, I'm not stating that this necessarily makes your working hypothesis wrong -- I'm just saying that we have to recognize it for what it is, or we will be unable to spot data that goes against it. For example, if we formed a working hypothesis that "all fire trucks are red," and also accepted that as our presupposition (i.e.- failed to recognize that it was just a hypothesis), then we would not even be LOOKING at blue trucks -- and we would thus never, ever spot a blue fire truck that busted our biases. Accordingly, in the end, we "prove" ourselves to be right, simply because our expectations directed all our subsequent research, and caused us to completely avoid channels that could prove us wrong ("We are NOT allocating one dime to examine blue trucks! We already know that all fire trucks are red, the only question is 'How red are they?'").

I wanted to assure everyone that I already have our team working to discredit this recent discovery (below) as a bogus anomaly, put forth by the blue paint companies in order to forestall the regulations that will inevitably be coming, after our research into the amazing redness of fire trucks goes public.

Many in our team do not believe this is a "real" fire truck, since it clearly has "Indianapolis Colts" painted on the side, which means it's probably used to hose down rabid fans, not to put out fires. After all, we now have more than 100,000 photos of red fire trucks, and a strong consensus that the redness of fire trucks is both significant and impressive.

Another theory we're going to float to the media is that this truck is actually used to clean out horse stables, not to put out fires (note it has "Go Horse" printed near the bottom, exactly the type of thing one would shout if they were about to point a high-pressure hose into a horse stable! Coincidence? Unlikely.). Additionally, the scientist who released this photo has, in the past, received funding from "Big Paint."