But dear Donna, didn’t you know that “global warming” includes extreme cooling? In fact, a major “global warming” concern is now the coming European Ice Age.
That is why I chose “global warming” as an example of the Procrustean bed:
There is another name for the unfalsifiable theory: the Procrustean bed, named after that unpleasant fellow of legend, Procrustes, whose joy it was to waylay travelers and tie them to his bed, which was truly one-size-fits-all. If the traveler were too short, he was stretched till he “fit,” and if he were too tall, his dangling appendages were lopped off (an apt description of what the proponents of an unfalsifiable theory do to facts).
Oh, the irony! American cars and SUVs spin out as they continue to belch forth the fumes that some academics say caused their dilemma.
