Global Warming and Ockham's Razor

In the Fourteenth Century, a Franciscan friar named William of Ochkam proposed a new way of looking at the world. Known today as "Ockham's Razor," his approach tried to cut through the complexities and convolutions of the Scholastic school of philosophy by suggesting that all else being equal, the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is probably the correct one.
Like many other dangerous thinkers of the Renaissance--including such impious malcontents as Galileo and Copernicus--William of

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