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The Settled Science in an Unsettled World

The coronavirus zealots say science changes. But what about climate change?

For the last 18 months, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, has shifted more positions than the Tampa Bay Rays defense. Be it in his private emails or public statements, Fauci has changed his mind on nearly every component relating to the coronavirus pandemic, from masks to vaccines to kids. The COVID cultists routinely take a moment from worshipping at their Fauci shrine to come to his defense, declaring that science keeps changing and that is the nature of the virus – not the infectious disease expert. But why is the science unsettled for a respiratory illness and settled for a 4.5-billion-year-old planet where two-thirds of the blue pearl of the cosmos has been unexplored? Perhaps it is politics at its finest.

Is Climate Science an Exception to the Rule?

GettyImages-1072219924 Al Gore

Al Gore
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In July 2013, former Vice President Al Gore proclaimed on Twitter: “The science is settled. The data is clear. Man-made carbon pollution is real.” He has repeatedly made this claim in public speeches and television interviews without any pushback. Any time a climate change skeptic wishes to discuss the science and converse about the data and recent findings, Gore and his disciples reject the invitation or walk away.

A new report has the world in hysteria once again. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a major scientific assessment that “is a code red for humanity,” claiming that human activity is altering the climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways. But cutting greenhouse emissions could stabilize increasing temperatures, the report noted, and prevent extreme heatwaves, droughts, and flooding from intensifying.

“If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres remarked on the study, which was an update from its first major review of climate change science since 2013. “But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses. I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.”

So, it seems, this report has settled the science once again, with experts telling the press that this is an unequivocal and indisputable statement of fact. But is it the correct and scientific approach to fearmonger global warming? The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian government agency responsible for scientific research, wrote: “Science is rarely, if ever, ‘settled.’ The nature of the scientific method – whereby hypotheses are routinely questioned, tested, refined and retested – is such that understanding is improved over time.”

Indeed, in a comprehensive look at the science, it listed many “robust findings” to support the view that the climate is changing. At the same time, the CSIRO named plenty of “key uncertainties,” such as how climate models differ in their estimates of cloud feedbacks and the “direct and indirect impacts of aerosol (fine atmospheric particles) on the magnitude of the temperature response, on clouds and on rainfall remain uncertain.”

climate related deaths chartAnother component in this subject is adaptation and innovation. For example, climate-related deaths from floods, wildfires, droughts, and extreme temperatures have cratered over the last century. However, based on the mainstream media’s coverage and clever usage of photography and video, it would appear that much of the developed and developing world is dying from heatwaves and hurricanes. This is merely the CNN Effect, since more news networks are covering the globe than they were 50 years ago.

Despite Jim Kossin, senior scientist with The Climate Service and an IPCC author, hoping that the report will “affect the way they vote,” why does fighting climate change need to be a political endeavor? In recent years, the private sector has devised and theorized many efficacious technologies to, for example, vacuum the atmosphere of carbon. Liberty Nation reported in July:

“Across the globe, a growing number of companies are embarking upon direct air capture that is essentially the process of vacuuming the atmosphere of carbon. For example, Climeworks, a Swiss-based firm, has dozens of immense fans cleaning the air of carbon dioxide. Others, like Carbon Engineering, have been manufacturing and deploying carbon-capture technology to remove CO2 from the air.”

Much to the chagrin of political opportunists, climate science is not settled as there are still way too many variables to account for on a planet that poses more questions than answers. It would be comparable to just accepting Albert Einstein’s premise from a century ago that the gravitational pull of black holes is so immense that they would bend and trap light. After much research by astronomers, it turns out that Einstein was correct. But the science was not settled because somebody presented a theory. And perhaps the scientific community will discover or disprove other aspects of quasars, quarks, and Quaoar. The science is always tested, scrutinized, and exposed.

Two Weeks to Change Your Mind

Whether it is Dr. Fauci or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Americans have become more skeptical and less trustful of the establishment, particularly when these bureaucrats have contributed to the destitution and despair of so many U.S. households since March 2020. The recommendations shifted from not wearing masks to going as far as double masking. The expectation transformed from vaccinations would end the pandemic to vaccinations are only part of the solution. The dialogue changed from conservatives and libertarians being conspiracy theorists for concerns over passports and mandates to these authoritarian measures being for your own good. Vaccine hesitancy also became a political football as the nation transitioned from one administration to another, with prominent Democrats questioning the efficacy of these injections because they were developed under former President Donald Trump.

The coronavirus was a once-in-a-century public health crisis that quickly metastasized into a globalists’ wish list of confinement, control, and consternation. Is COVID science constantly changing? Or is it the politicians and bureaucrats who continually move the goalposts to sustain their power to erode liberty?

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