Ignoring scientific fact won't change climate physics
By Paul Roberts / For The Herald
In “Origins of Totalitarianism,” Hanna Arendt (1951) writes: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
The Trump administration’s war on science and data — the full range, including climate, health and economics — is about creating doubt and distorting facts and reality. They view climate science as a religion one can choose to accept or reject. This is not only wrong, it’s dangerous and damaging to the environment and economy.
Announcing the proposed repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health, Administrator Lee Zeldin said: “We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age.” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said: “Climate alarmism has reduced freedom, prosperity and national security.”
The proposal to repeal the endangerment finding is based on a report calling the threat of climate change overblown. According to the New York Times, the report was written by five scientists handpicked by Wright. They all reject the global scientific consensus that burning oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet. Their report lacks peer review, and flies in the face of thousands of peer-reviewed studies gathered over 70 years from around the world.
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