Science, Politics and Global Warming

‘The Global Warming circus in
Copenhagen was politics driven by a consensus that, by definition, has
nothing to do with science. The apocalyptic nonsense that opened the
meeting highlighted that fact. How many who attended or demonstrated at
the meeting actually understand the (disputed) scientific grounds for
the hysteria? Meanwhile, leading science journals allow skeptics of
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) to be labelled “deniers” and refuse
them the right of reply. It is doctrinaire denouncement, not science.
It is the journal editors who are denying the scientific method by
censoring debate. It is they who are peddling ideology.

Despite the glossy media image, modern
science is a mess. When the fundamental concepts are false,
technological progress merely provides science with a more efficient
means for going backwards. At the same time, government and corporate
funding promotes the rampant disease of specialism and fosters
politicization of science with the inevitable warring factions and
religious fervor.’

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