It’s a cult:Why the climate debate is paralyzing free thinkers and undermining democracy.
8 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”
“Iām from the progressive left myself, son of a passionate journalist. […] Although there is a disappointment, this adventure fueled me with an untameable urge to break the silence and depoliticize the debate.”
~Marijn Poels
Good luck with that. As progressive Leftie, you should know better than to piss into the wind.
I think catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, CAGW, has all the markers of a fundamentalist religion. At the very least it has more in common with religion than science. I know that this seems like an odd thing to say but there’s things about CAGW that should make scientific people uncomfortable.
The hypothesis has been designed to be unfalsifiable. Don’t believe me? Then ask CAGW believers what proof they would accept that man made CO2 emissions are not the primary driver of climate change or that climate change might not be catastrophic. All attempts to explore other drivers, cycles or natural variation are met with the ugly and lame “climate denier” label.
The carbon dioxide molecule has somehow been “scientifically” proven to cause every conceivable weather/climate event. It has also been “scientifically” proven to cause every conceivable negative human condition. I doubt you can name anything that someone has not linked to carbon dioxide. Does this not seem irrational? Like a secular version of the “God’s will/wrath” explanation?
If the science is so robust then why are adherents so hostile to the idea of open debate or a red team/blue team exercise? Is the CAGW hypothesis and evidence too fragile to withstand even mild skepticism? Why are skeptics and lukewarmers treated like heretics who must be excommunicated? It’s a weird situation where CAGW is presented as rock solid but questioning the hypothesis is forbidden.
Is there any branch of science that morphed into dogma as quickly as climate science and CAGW?
I suggest he thinks he can do it because he is the wind. However, from my long experience of trail riding, doing what you say is to be avoided. You must either stand on the downwind side of a large tree or have the wind to your back. Otherwise you are going to get wet from your own emissions of fluid. However, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Prior to the first wave of environmental hysteria some 50 years ago, the left relied on class warfare and the myth of the “public good” to compete with liberty. Ever since, they have increasingly draped themselves in green as that form of hysteria has all but displaced Christianity (even among so called Christians). With reason squeezed out, so went sound science to be replaced with rent seeking prostitution with a revived surrogate of the old military industrial complex being the CAGW led political industrial climate complex. Given the parallel growth of the welfare state and leftist cultural dominance, fully in support of state control over energy due the CAGW hysteria backed political power, this film maker has discovered that he is now in the way of his old comrades hell bent on destroying whats left of capitalism and western civilization.
No, enviromentalism [sic] is the religion, CAGW is the Apocalypse, we must all repent our sins before the coming Trumps.
… oh, wait š
Yes, the Brundtland Report was the signal for the failed, disillusioned Marxists et al. to renew their efforts with a new message to cover the old urge of centralised state control. I distinctly remember my socialist friends redirecting their effort into the enviromental [sic] movement due to it. http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
many would the fact that it is made up BS qualifies it as a religion.
“fundamentalist religion”
jerry falwell comes to mind. smug smug smug and very judgemental.
also the one from texas, john hagee. verrrry judgemental.
“Iām from the progressive left myself, son of a passionate journalist. […] Although there is a disappointment, this adventure fueled me with an untameable urge to break the silence and depoliticize the debate.”
~Marijn Poels
Good luck with that. As progressive Leftie, you should know better than to piss into the wind.
I think catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, CAGW, has all the markers of a fundamentalist religion. At the very least it has more in common with religion than science. I know that this seems like an odd thing to say but there’s things about CAGW that should make scientific people uncomfortable.
The hypothesis has been designed to be unfalsifiable. Don’t believe me? Then ask CAGW believers what proof they would accept that man made CO2 emissions are not the primary driver of climate change or that climate change might not be catastrophic. All attempts to explore other drivers, cycles or natural variation are met with the ugly and lame “climate denier” label.
The carbon dioxide molecule has somehow been “scientifically” proven to cause every conceivable weather/climate event. It has also been “scientifically” proven to cause every conceivable negative human condition. I doubt you can name anything that someone has not linked to carbon dioxide. Does this not seem irrational? Like a secular version of the “God’s will/wrath” explanation?
If the science is so robust then why are adherents so hostile to the idea of open debate or a red team/blue team exercise? Is the CAGW hypothesis and evidence too fragile to withstand even mild skepticism? Why are skeptics and lukewarmers treated like heretics who must be excommunicated? It’s a weird situation where CAGW is presented as rock solid but questioning the hypothesis is forbidden.
Is there any branch of science that morphed into dogma as quickly as climate science and CAGW?
I suggest he thinks he can do it because he is the wind. However, from my long experience of trail riding, doing what you say is to be avoided. You must either stand on the downwind side of a large tree or have the wind to your back. Otherwise you are going to get wet from your own emissions of fluid. However, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Prior to the first wave of environmental hysteria some 50 years ago, the left relied on class warfare and the myth of the “public good” to compete with liberty. Ever since, they have increasingly draped themselves in green as that form of hysteria has all but displaced Christianity (even among so called Christians). With reason squeezed out, so went sound science to be replaced with rent seeking prostitution with a revived surrogate of the old military industrial complex being the CAGW led political industrial climate complex. Given the parallel growth of the welfare state and leftist cultural dominance, fully in support of state control over energy due the CAGW hysteria backed political power, this film maker has discovered that he is now in the way of his old comrades hell bent on destroying whats left of capitalism and western civilization.
No, enviromentalism [sic] is the religion, CAGW is the Apocalypse, we must all repent our sins before the coming Trumps.
… oh, wait š
Yes, the Brundtland Report was the signal for the failed, disillusioned Marxists et al. to renew their efforts with a new message to cover the old urge of centralised state control. I distinctly remember my socialist friends redirecting their effort into the enviromental [sic] movement due to it.
http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
many would the fact that it is made up BS qualifies it as a religion.
“fundamentalist religion”
jerry falwell comes to mind. smug smug smug and very judgemental.
also the one from texas, john hagee. verrrry judgemental.