Climate: A Science of Doom Climate: A Science of Doom

If not for its catastrophic predictions of doom, climate science would be a backwater -- barely funded and rarely reported in the media. Without climate doom, there would be no 100 trillion euro carbon market and Al Gore would not be approaching billionaire status. Without climate doom the UN and its IPCC would have but a tenuous grasp on the incomes of ordinary North Americans, Australians, and Kiwis. For climate science and the vast global carbon trade industry, everything hinges on doom.

Until now, the world news media and political leaders have been content to leave all of these things to the UN's IPCC, and to the academic and governmental institutions devoted to climate studies. Until now, it seemed that predictions of climate doom were scientific and disinterested, trustworthy. Until now.

Now, maverick scientists who refuse to be cowed by the climate doom orthodoxy are beginning to speak out, to question the reality of climate doom. This process is cautious and gradual, and has none of the bombastic certainty of the climate doom orthodoxy's $multi-trillion steamrolling crusade and bandwagon.

Science fiction writer and frequent warming catastrophe advocate David Brin would like for the heretics and skeptics to shut up and listen to their betters in the climate doom orthodoxy. Brin maintains that skeptics are not "real scientists" and that unless someone is a "real scientist" he should not be taken seriously in the climate debate.

Although trained as a physicist, Brin is clearly acting as an advocate for a cause. In fact, he is appealing to the infallible authority of the "consensus" orthodoxy, as opposed to the inconsequential carping of infidels and heretics -- who should probably be taken out and burned.

Every science worth the name must be willing to defend its hypotheses against serious questions of data, methods, theory, and conclusions. Appealing to authority in an attempt to avoid facing the vital skepticism of the scientific method, is an act of dogmatic cowardice.

There is no exclusive club called "science" where consensus rules, in possession of absolute truths. Any "science" that is afraid to face the scrutiny of the outside world does not deserve the name of science. It is instead a cult, or a scam.

Instead of barring the doors to the heretics, climate science had best open wide the doors and begin cleaning its own house in earnest.   Because up until now, the orthodoxy of climate doom has had it all its own way.  Things are changing.  It will be very painful for true believers in the orthodoxy to stand by and watch cherished beliefs being dismantled in a true scientific manner.  Painful, but necessary.