Epistemic integrity of anthropogenic global warming.

Epistemic integrity is based on the product of deceptiveness. Scientific expertise and it’s epistemic authority can be corrupted by financial and political non-epistemological interests ie. Hypothesis acceptance. Scepticism, empiricalism, and rationalism epistemologies are important for science based on empirical evidence, observations, experience, experiment, and verification rather than relying on a foundationalist epistemology beliefs that rulers are always right, coherentism epistemology beliefs based on other sets of beliefs eg. Santa Claus, pragmatism based on usefulness, and idealism not derived from experience.

Rudolf Carnops method of reconstruction comprises both analysis of given meanings and stipulation of new meanings. Explication of a pre-scientific, inexact concept, the explicandum, can be replaced with an exact scientific concept, the explicatum. Carnop applies four principles of explication similarity, exactness, fruitful, and simplicity. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s picture theory of language, which evolved into what is now called the verification principle by A.J. Ayer is the basic idea is that for statements to be logical and useful they must refer to verifiable facts. Epistemic integrity of scientific theories can be upheld by means of declarations, definitions, and expositions.

Five observations and experiments that refute anthropogenic warming theory include:

1. One can cook an egg on hot surfaces or get sunburn from the powerful and penetrating solar radiation but not from the weak IR upgoing thermal radiation in the cooler air;

2. If you shine a torch on a surface and reflect the weak reflected light back onto the surface it doesn't increase the surface brightness more than the initial powerful light already has. Heat and light work the same;

3. Even a downward radiant heater cannot heat a bath. Air is a poor conductor of heat of lower specific heat capacity than water;

4. One can see water vapour from a hot bath creates evaporation cooling as water turns from liquid to gas, is light and removes latent heat and creates a local low pressure atmospheric circulation pulling cool air in. In nature this condenses into clouds and rain;

5. If you measure the atmospheric pressure and temperature at different altitudes you can see temperature is a function of pressure not atmospheric composition;