Jigsaw Puzzle or House of Cards?

A couple of interesting articles about climate change from the Economist, – http://bit.ly/Spin_Science_and_Climate_Change and http://bit.ly/The_Science_of_Climate_Change.

‘In any complex scientific picture of the world there will be gaps, misperceptions and mistakes. Whether your impression is dominated by the whole or the holes will depend on your attitude to the project at hand. You might say that some see a jigsaw where others see a house of cards. Jigsaw types have in mind an overall picture and are open to bits being taken out, moved around or abandoned should they not fit. Those who see houses of cards think that if any piece is removed, the whole lot falls down. When it comes to climate, academic scientists are jigsaw types, dissenters from their view house-of-cards-ists.’