{"id":421796,"date":"2026-01-17T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421796"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:33:56","slug":"philosopher-schopenhauer-climate-science-certainty-stems-from-stupidity-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421796","title":{"rendered":"Philosopher Schopenhauer: Climate Science Certainty Stems from Stupidity, Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From No Trick Zone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German philosopher Schopenhauer: Stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt\u2026Why climate alarmists are, well, idiots.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The video, Why \u2018Idiots\u2019 Think They\u2019re Intelligent \u2014 Schopenhauer<\/a><\/strong>, reminds us a lot of all the idiots out there who are convinced of the AGW crisis and why they believe the absurdity, and lots of other nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligence sees complexity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer<\/strong> (1788\u20131860) argued: Intelligence requires the ability to perceive complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, if a person is too ignorant to see that complexity, everything appears simple and convincing, leading to a state of blissful confidence. Here we quiickly realize how this applies so perfectly to Climate Science, and many other fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some examples of stupid, simplified claims:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Climate Science: Climate is regulated by a single control knob, CO2! The higher the atmospheric CO2 level, the more violent our weather and climate become!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. COVID immunization: If you get vaccinated, you won\u2019t get sick and spread the disease. (80% believed it and got the jab!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Public Health: Wear a mask, and the mask will catch your virus-carrying droplets and prevent others from getting infected!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Biology: A fetus is just a clump of cells, the center of which is pulsing for some unimportant reason.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Economics: Just print a lot of money and everyone will have enough!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Nutrition: All calories are the same. And dietary fat is bad for you because it clogs your blood vessels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Neurology and Consciousness: Your brain produces your consiousness. When your body dies, you end!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Economics: Permanent trade tariffs protect jobs and industries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Astronomy: The earth is flat and it\u2019s the center of the universe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    All the above are examples of extremely complex issues that get (got) grotesquely simplified to a level where the masses of idiots, media and much of academia think it\u2019s settled. For idiots, once you ignore all the complexity, it beomes simple, certain and unchallengeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Idiots can only comprehend simple things<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And because these not-very-bright dimwits manage intellectually to finally grasp the absurd simplifications, they become convinced they know it. Just take a look at the audience of dummies watching Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth<\/em> presentation in his Oscar-winning propaganda movie. In the end, they all believed it was as simple as CO2 regulating the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why are the skeptics intelligent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Schopenhauer noted that stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt. Really iuntelligent people will always have doubt. Ask yourselves, who claims to be certain about climate science, and who sees that it\u2019s far more complex and uncertain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If people admitted they didn\u2019t know everything about a topic, they would never have to fear admitting they were wrong later. When it comes to issues of great complexity, certainty always comes from ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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