“This is quite superstitious and I’m waiting for science that doesn’t declare itself definitive but is otherwise convincing.”

CARNEY: The impacts of Climate Change on weather are severe in both directions. The fact that the severe winter that much of the country endured had an impact on GDP wasn’t an assessment that we here alone made, but economists, independent on the outside made and that nobody disagrees with. The fact is that no single weather event can be attributed to Climate Change. There is an inclination upon some to doubt the science, despite the overwhelming evidence and the overwhelming percentage in the 97% range of scientists who study this issue agree that Climate Change is real and it is the result of human activity.

KRAUTHAMMER: 99% of physicists were convinced that space and time were fixed until Einstein, working in a patten office, wrote a paper in which he showed that they are not. I’m not impressed by numbers. I’m not impressed by consensus. When I was a psychiatrist, I participated in consensus conferences on how to define depression and mania. These are things that people negotiate and the way that you would negotiate a bill, because the science is unstable.

Because in the case of climate, the models are changeable and because climate is so complicated. The idea that we who have trouble forecasting what’s going to happen on Saturday in the climate could pretend to be predicting what’s going to happen in 30, 40 years, is absurd. And you always see that no matter what happens, whether it’s a flood or it’s a drought, whether it’s warming or cooling, it’s always a result of what is ultimately what we’re talking about human sin with pollution of carbon. It’s the oldest superstition around. It was in the Old Testament. It’s in the rain dance of the Native Americans. If you sin, the skies will not cooperate.

This is quite superstitious and I’m waiting for science that doesn’t declare itself definitive but is otherwise convincing.